Hello everyone, the last week I have not been able to keep everyone as up to date on the Database Corruption Challenge as I would like to. Life has just turned really busy in the last 10 days, but I …

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Here is how I solved Week 5 of the Database Corruption Challenge. The following steps were tested and confirmed working on SQL Server 2008R2, SQL Server 2012, and SQL Server 2014.   To oversimplify, here are the steps: Restore the …

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Find out more about the Week 5 Challenge on the overview blog post. The winning solution, was submitted by Patrick Flynn, just 3 hours and 18 minutes after the challenge was posted. Patrick provided me with the following steps, and TSQL …

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Welcome to the Week 5 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. We are currently at the 5 week midpoint of …

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There is a lot happening right now, so I thought I would put together a brief overview of upcoming speaking engagements. May 13th – When Corruption Strikes (PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Meeting) May 16th – Exploring SQL Server Join Types – …

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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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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 …

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