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Database Corruption Challenge #7 Coming Soon Read more »

Hello everyone, the last week I have not been able to keep everyone as up to date on the Database Corruption Challenge as I would like to. Life has just turned really busy in the last 10 days, but I …

Database Corruption Challange 6 – Coming Soon Read more »

Here is how I solved Week 5 of the Database Corruption Challenge. The following steps were tested and confirmed working on SQL Server 2008R2, SQL Server 2012, and SQL Server 2014.   To oversimplify, here are the steps: Restore the …

Week 5 – Alternate Solution Read more »

Find out more about the Week 5 Challenge on the overview blog post. The winning solution, was submitted by Patrick Flynn, just 3 hours and 18 minutes after the challenge was posted. Patrick provided me with the following steps, and TSQL …

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