Memory Corruptions, or Why You Need DBCC CHECKDB
DBCC is a mechanism that can protect you against corruptions causing substantial data loss in your database. If you use it.
2014-10-24 (first published: 2012-11-08)
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Paul Randal
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The Importance of Validating Backups
You may think that if your database has backed up without errors, that it's going to restore without errors. Think again, says Paul Randal.
2013-12-27 (first published: 2012-09-24)
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My SQL Server Database is Corrupt - Now What?!
How do you recover from corruption if your organization doesn't have a disaster recovery handbook? And how can you prevent the same corruption from recurring?
2013-01-29
8,708 reads
The Perils of Running Database Repair
In a perfect world everyone has the right backups to be able to recover within the downtime and data-loss service level agreements when accidental data loss or corruption occurs. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world and so many people find that they don’t have the backups they need to recover when faced with corruption.
2012-06-25
4,921 reads
Wait statistics, or please tell me where it hurts
How many times have you walked up to a SQL Server that has a performance problem and wondered where to start looking?
2010-12-16
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2010-06-08
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2010-06-01
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2010-03-10
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2010-03-01
4,152 reads
2010-02-17
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Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers