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Christopher West

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:42 PM

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SQL 2000 Enterprise SP4.

Our SQL server is periodically getting 823 errors as follows:

Error: 823, Severity: 24, State: 2
I/O error (bad page ID) detected during read at offset 0x00000022018000 in file 'F:\SQLDataFiles\Click2Coach_Data.MDF'.

If I run DBCC CHECKDB sometimes it returns errors and sometimes it doesn't. Today I ran DBCC CHECKDB with repair and it reported about 12 errors fixed. However, the 823s started up again shortly after the repair finished. I've been running the DBCC CHECKDB statement periodically throughout the day. Most times it's clean but other times it returns errors. I took one of the object IDs that were in the error message and couldn't find it in sysobjects. We have run diagnostics on the disk and haven't found any problems. We also detached and moved the DB to a different drive (although it was just a logical drive), but that seemed to have no effect. Any ideas?

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Paul Randal

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:57 PM

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It's your IO subsystem, without a shadow of a doubt.

Errors are moving around because the IO subsystem is corrupting different parts of the various files.

You need to move off that IO subsystem until you figure out what is wrong with it. Use SQLIOSim to diagnose - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231619 - IO subsystem diagnostics are usually not sufficient to stress the IO subsystem into producing errors.

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Christopher West

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:31 PM

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Thanks Paul for the quick response!! We'll give it a try.

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paul.knibbs

Posted Friday, March 25, 2011 3:42 AM

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Paul Randal (3/23/2011)

It's your IO subsystem, without a shadow of a doubt.

Isn't it possible it could be a memory issue? I had a (non-SQL, admittedly) problem on a machine once where files kept getting corrupted, but I eventually traced it to a problem with faulty RAM--some of the bits of the files were getting flipped in memory before they ever got written to the hard drive! Less likely on a server machine with ECC-checking RAM, of course...

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Christopher West

Posted Saturday, April 09, 2011 6:17 AM

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Hi Everyone,

It took us a while, but we eventually determined that there was something wrong with the disks (as Paul initially suspected) and the issue was resolved by replacing them.

Thanks for the help!!

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Paul Randal

Posted Saturday, April 09, 2011 6:22 AM

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Glad you got it sorted!

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