I agree with Mike as well, that in many cases, it really does depend..However, that said, you have to be very careful how you throw that term around and who...

If I was always on vacation I would smile a lot too! Seriously though, always remember, as was said above, that very few people have ever said on their deathbed,...

Once awhile back working at an advertising company when I noticed that a crucial production advertising database had not been backed up since it was created for almost a year!!!...

Restores are pointless if you are not even doing your backups properly. I have gone into many shops in the past where they weren't even backing up their databases properly....

True story, but the rub with that is you got to treat and pay "good people" well, or they leave sooner or later and you are then left with "not...

No problem, it's all good. I have developed a pretty hard shell over the years, so nothing really gives offense to me anymore. Like I said, it was just a...

I'm sorry if you were offended by my comparison and I'm also sorry if I offended any Scientologist either. I was simply making a comparison. We were asked what we...

Lynn Pettis (3/15/2013)

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TravisDBA (3/15/2013)

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No problem Lynn, since I am not that crazy about it either. However, with all due respect, the last time I checked you are not the forum...

No problem Lynn, since I am not that crazy about it either. However, with all due respect, the last time I checked you are not the forum police force around...

What is truth? Defining truth depends on who you happen to be talking to at the time. L. Ron Hubbard's take is no more crazy than the story about a...

After observing mankind the last 3-4 decades I have changed my mind on the origins of mankind. I think L. Ron Hubbard may have been right. 😀

Markus (3/14/2013)

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We took over a company some years ago with 100 SQL2000 dbs. CHECKDB was never run. I found two that had minor corruption that would have not...

Miguel,

Try one of Paul Randal's corrupt sample databases he uses in his DBCC demos at:

http://www.sqlskills.com/pastconferences.asp

😀

johnbrown105 56149 (3/14/2013)

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TravisDBA (3/14/2013)

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Also, to the VLDB issue, you can run DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP on the INDIVIDUAL filegroups (which you should be using on a VLDB anyway) which cuts that...

You guys are concentrating on the wrong thing here. it is not running DBCC consistency checks regularly on your database that is the real issue of importancy here. Most competent...