Today is the release of Database Health Monitor Beta 10.1. If you haven’t see the Database Health Monitor before, its a free application that I have been building over last 4 years. It has been a while since the last release, …
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Here is the solution provided by Patrick Flynn. Congratulations Patrick for being one of this weeks winners. I really liked this solution for a number of reasons, first it showed how to pull data from DBCC Page and actually convert …
So many times I have been asked for help with a query, where the question really comes down to the understanding of the difference between INNER and LEFT or RIGHT JOINs. This will help >>> Try our new JOIN Types …
Congratulations to Randolph West who won the corruption challenge this week with the following solution which restored all of the data. First he restored the database to get started. Note some of his code and comments have been reformatted to …
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It is my pleasure to announce the winners in the Week 4 Database Corruption Challenge. But first how about a rundown of challenge. In order to make up for the difficult time that Challenge #3 was issued, Challenge #4 was …
The following are the steps that I went through to create a more difficult Database Corruption Challenge for Week 4. Here is how I built the database, nothing fancy, however I did add an extra FILEGROUP called [UserObjects]. Notice, that …
Can you solve Week 4 of the Database Corruption Challenge? 17 hours after launching the fourth in the series of Database Corruption Challenges, so far 1 winner, and many people asking for additional clues. My goal this week was to …
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Database Corruption Challenge #4 started about 20 minutes late today due to an upload problem. The corrupt database file is zipped to 22mb, however wordpress (where my site is hosted) would not let me upload anything bigger than 8mb. After a …
Technical details getting started with the challenge this week. Read more »
Welcome to the Week 4 Corruption Challenge. If you have seen the t-shirt that I designed for the winner at the end of the 10 week period, please take a look. This challenge is more diabolical than previous weeks, …
Do you need some help with your SQL Server, but perhaps don’t need another full time DBA? Do you need some help to cover your DBA being out on vacation? Do you need help assessing the health of your SQL …