• Ask yourself, which is preferable, a corrupt database that you know is corrupt or a corrupt database that you don't know is corrupt.

    CheckDB when run without a repair option (which is how you should run it) reads and checks for corruption, that's it.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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