Take a look at the video on our Youtube channel. After repairing dozens of corrupt databases over the last 6 years we are going to share our experiences. Some of the good, the bad, and the ugly of corrupt databases. What things people did to make it worse, and what people did to make things better. Related links:

We are 2 days away from the Introduction to Database Corruption free presentation. On February 17, 2021 at 6:00pm Pacific time we will be presenting a free webcast training on SQL Server Database Corruption. After repairing dozens of corrupt databases over the last 6 years we are going to share our experiences. Some of the good, the bad, and the …

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On February 17, 2021 at 6:00pm Pacific time Derrick Bovenkamp and I will be presenting a webcast training on SQL Server Database Corruption. After repairing dozens of corrupt databases over the last 6 years we are going to share our experiences. Some of the good, the bad, and the ugly of corrupt databases. What things people did to make it …

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Now is your chance to ask a question about corruption in SQL Server databases. We will do our best job of answering those questions on our February webcast on database corruption. Do you have a question about the output from DBCC CheckDB? Seeing a strange error in your SQL Server logs? Is your SQL Server sending alerts related to corruption? …

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On February 17, 2021 at 6:00pm Pacific time Derrick Bovenkamp and I will be presenting a webcast training on SQL Server Database Corruption. After repairing dozens of corrupt databases over the last 6 years we are going to share our experiences. Some of the good, the bad, and the ugly of corrupt databases. What things people did to make it …

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At Stedman Solutions, LLC the team and I do many database repairs from simple things that take just a few minutes to larger repairs that take many days to repair. Since 2015 we have been doing database corruption repair and have seen many different decisions made by the business owners with the corrupt database. Often times when investigating a corrupt …

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Yesterday I posted about how repair_allow_data_loss should never be used with CHECKDB or CHECKTABLE. Today I want to share the difference between repair_rebuild vs repair_allow_data_loss. DBCC CHECKDB is a critical tool in SQL Server for checking the consistency of a database. When corruption is detected, it offers repair options: REPAIR_REBUILD and REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS. Each serves distinct purposes and has significant differences. …

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