After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. This …
Neil Abrahams Interview – Database Corruption Challenge Read more »
After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge, finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the …
André Kamman Interview – Database Corruption Challenge Read more »
After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge, finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the …
Raul Gonzalez Interview – Database Corruption Challenge Read more »
After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge, finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the …
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Now that the Database Corruption Challenge has come to an end, I am looking for some feedback from the participants to see what we can do next (if anything) and to learn from the experience. I have created a survey, …
Today I am proud to announce that the Database Corruption Challenge has come to an end. I would like to say that I have met some really great people during this contest and I look forward to seeing you at …
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Welcome to Week 10 of the Database Corruption Challenge. I have created a more corrupt, and perhaps more diabolical corruption scenario than previous weeks. This is the last week of 10 in the Database Corruption Challenge. Here is how it …
The Database Corruption Challenge – Grand Finale The final challenge #10 in the Database Corruption Challenge starts this Friday (July 17th) at 6:00pm (Pacific Time). After 9 other challenges we come to the final competition in this series. Many have …
Database Corruption Challenge #10 Grand Finale – Starts Friday Read more »
I was asked how I caused the corruption in Database Corruption Challenge #9. Here is how I did it. To cause the corruption, I used the undocumented DBCC WritePage, however the same thing could have been accomplished by detaching the …
Database Corruption Challenge #9 – How I Corrupted the Database. Read more »
Database Corruption Challenge #9 has completed with 19 winning participants, you can take a look at the scoring page for exact details. The first to solve the challenge this week was Eduardo Rezende who provided the winning solution just 58 minutes …