Welcome to the ninth competition of ten in the Database Corruption Challenge. This week I have created a database and then corrupted one or more parts of that database, and your goal is to fix all of the corruption without losing any data. There is a total of 4 points available this week: One point for being the first person …
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 make a more difficult challenge that involved different methods of recovering the data than any of the previous challenges. Plus being …
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With all the interest in the Database Corruption Challenge, and the hundreds of email message I have exchanged with people over the last 3 days relating to the Database Corruption Challenge, I have decided to set up a newsletter mailing list to use to notify people of the upcoming Database Corruption Challenges, and other interesting tidbits. Sign up for the newsletter …
After introducing the Database Corruption Challenge (DBCC) – Week 1 Challenge yesterday, I received several requests for a SQL Server 2008 version of the challenge. Here is is, and for future Database Corruption Challenges, I will include a SQL Server 2008 version of the challenge. The 2008 backup file should restore just fine on SQL 2008, SQL Server 2008R2, SQL …
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