Since the corruption challenge completed yesterday, I have had several request asking how I created the corrupt database. So here is the script that I used to create the Database Corruption Challenge 1. First the initial setup. Most of this …
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On Saturday morning, I announced the Database Corruption Challenge, and I had to abbreviate it as the DBCC, why not, acronym overloading isn’t always a bad thing. There were 91 participants, 22 of which ended up with correct answers with …
Transcribed from a presentation on Database Corruption by Steve Stedman and Derrick Bovenkamp. Derrick : How do we find corruption? Oh, man, I wish it was as easy as taking out the magnifying glass there. Steve : Yeah, if we …
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At Stedman Solutions, we do a lot of work with SQL Server replication, mostly transactional and merge replication. The other day I needed a query to show all the merge replication publication on a SQL Server, not just a single …
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As a DBA you regularly schedule backups you might have regular full backups, incremental backups and hopefully regular backups. Over time you might realize that your error log is not longer filled with errors, but instead a majority of your …
Welcome to the Week 6 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. For this challenge, any version of SQL Server …