DBCC CHECKDB

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Performing DBCC Checks Using SQL Virtual Restore

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Ever restored a corrupted database from the backup, only to find that the backups are corrupted too - All the backups? Sure it can happen and it isn't nice when it does. To check that a database backup is internally consistent you have to use DBCC CheckDB. On a huge highly-loaded live system? Grant Fritchey has, as usual, a practical solution.

2011-05-02

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Getting The Database Name

I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.

sqlcmd -S localhost -E
At the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
GO
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