Just about 24 hours after releasing Database Corruption Challenge #9, so far there have been 15 winning solutions. The first to submit a winning solution was Eduardo Rezende. The scores have been updated. Rob Farley is back in the lead with 18 …
With many participants and 16 who correctly solved Corruption Challenge week 8, the challenge has come to an end. The overall winner was Rob Farley, and there were several new participants this week. The scores page has been updated. Some …
Several participants have stated that week 8 is the most difficult week yet. However it is possible to recover all of the corrupt data. For anyone having difficult with Database Corruption Challenge week 8, I have added an extra clue. …
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Database Corruption Challenge #8 will be starting at 6:00pm today (Friday June 19th). Check back soon for the details. Are you feeling corrupt? -Steve Stedman
Lately several people have asked me for the solutions to the corruption challenge, so I thought it would be a good time to recap the last 7 weeks. Week 1 of the Database Corruption Challenge was won by Brent Ozar, …
How do you check if a database exists, drop it and recreate it for testing purposes? After running the Database Corruption Challenge for several weeks now, I have seen many scripts to drop and recreate a database. This makes it …
Welcome to the seventh week of 10 in the Database Corruption Challenge (DBCC), this is an about weekly competition. Here is how it works; I have created a corrupt database, hopefully more corrupt or more interesting than the previous week. …
Those who are subscribed to my newsletter will receive the exact time of the next corruption challenge. For those who have not subscribed, just keep checking back to find out when the next Database Corruption Challenge begins. Here is the latest …
If you are looking for more info on the corrupt database with Week 6 of the Database Corruption Challenge, you can take a look at the original post. Week 6 was won by Raul Gonzalez who submitted his winning solution …
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There are many times that CheckDB ends up being extremely slow, sometimes taking more than a day to run. This can make life difficult if you are trying to find out what is corrupt. There are several of the tricks …