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 participants called this the toughest challenge yet which makes my job even harder to come up with something more challenging …
Today I am presenting to the session “When Database Corruption Strikes” to the High Availability and Disaster Recovery PASS Virtual Chapter. Here is the abstract: You are working along month after month with no problems in your database. Suddenly someone reports that their query won’t run. They get an error stating “SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error“, or …
Today I had the opportunity to present When Corruption Strikes to the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Meeting. This was a lot of fun to be able to recap the previous 4 weeks of the Database Corruption Challenge, and share some of the ways to fix the corrupt database. I hope that everyone learned something that will help them when one day they …
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 the 10 week challenge. This challenge requires that you use the exact matching version of SQL Server for the challenge. …
The Database Corruption Challenge (DBCC 2015) t-shirt is now available at CafePress. It looks something like this. Check it out and order one to show your participation in the Database Corruption Challenge. Last week, I mentioned that I would come up with prizes for the contest, and that the prizes would be based on the number of participants each week. So here is …