This Saturday, September 12th, 2015 I will be presenting at SQL Saturday Las Vegas. My presentation is on Database Corruption, here are the details. When Database Corruption Strikes – Will you be ready? Duration: 60 minutes Track: Enterprise Database Administration …

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After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. This …

Neil Abrahams Interview – Database Corruption Challenge Read more »

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 …

Database Corruption Challange 6 – Coming Soon Read more »

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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As the weekend approaches and we head for another Database Corruption Challenge (DBCC) I want to remind everyone who is interested of being notified of the next event to sign up for my newsletter. Just click here to find out …

Another Corruption Challenge This Weekend. Read more »