Do you execute DBCC CHECKDB on your Azure SQL Database? From past experience I know some people do, I would suggest not to bother. Why?
Tag Archives: DBCC CHECKDB
SQL Server – DBCC CHECKTABLE
If you know about DBCC CHECKDB then most likely you will know about DBCC CHECKTABLE. Quite simply this command performs primitive system-catalog consistency checks, per-table consistency checks on the single table specified, and cross-table consistency checks on indexed views that reference the specified table. (Page 899 Microsoft SQL Server Internals 2012, Chapter 14, Page 899, Paul Randal)
SQL Server: What will REPAIR do?
So I had a corruption issue and I was thinking about running repair but I wanted to know what would potentially get deleted.
SQL Server Tracking Suspect Pages
Did you know that SQL Server tracks suspect pages and puts the details into the msdb database in a table called suspect_pages? Well it does, but the question I want answering is what happens if the page within the suspect pages table is fixed? Does it automatically get removed/updated or do we as the administrators have to do anything manually?
SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB
A quick video clip where I show two things.
Firstly I show how since SQL Server 2014 SP1+ the snapshot is no longer hidden then finally how I check that DBCC CHECKDB has ran successfully.
Corrupt Database – I need that data now!
My database is in the recovery pending state and I want to get in and extract the data out into a new database, I have NO BACKUPS available so some data (even if it is dodgy) is better than nothing.