Corruption in a SQL database is when the database becomes damaged or corrupted, making it unable to be used or accessed. This can happen for a number of reasons, such as hardware failure, software bugs, or even human error. When …

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At Stedman Solutions, LLC when we do corruption repair it usually means someone has discovered they have corruption, and they call us. If they had good backups and good CheckDB scripts, they wouldn’t have to call us because they would …

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Whenever you hear a company with over 30 years of experience tell you facts from real life scenarios, you should hear what they have to say. Learn from others’ mistakes some say. Our team has come up with 3 quick …

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So, you have discovered CheckDB is reporting errors on your SQL Server database or on a table in your database. What do you do? REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS seems like and quick and easy fix right? But do you actually know what you’re …

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The Stedman Solutions team shares ways to reduce the impact of server corruption. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:10All right. Ways to reduce impact are backups, good backups, frequent backups, and off site backups with that, it’s not just SQL backups, but …

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If you don’t know the difference between server corruption and drive failure then this video is for you. It will all be explained in this quick 6 min video. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:10Now, one of the things that when we …

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Easy listen – 6 minute video describing possible server corruption scenarios that’s actually happened. Help yourself and avoid these mistakes. Presented by Steve Stedman and Derrick Bovenkamp. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:03Now, imagine with this picture, if that was your fiber …

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