Database Corruption Overview for Beginners
Database Corruption Overview: Database corruption is one of those things that you can only plan for by practicing your response pla
n. Out of all of the things that can happen to your SQL Server this is the one that you are most likely going to want to ask for help when you encounter it.
What is Corruption?
Database corruption refers to corrupt pages in the database that are incorrectly formatted. This could be as simple as a single bit, or as huge as the entire file. Sometimes this type of corruption prevents the database from starting, other times it may prevents queries from running. Sometimes it may go undetected for some time, and may present as missing or incorrect data.