Hey Chuck,

To answer your questions a few posts up:

1) If the corrupt page is no longer allocated, does that mean that the corruption is still there and CHECKDB is unable...

Patrick2525 (4/1/2010)

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Paul Randal (4/1/2010)

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So you're trying to learn Greek (or pick any language you don't know), and its very...

Steve S-428612 (4/1/2010)

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I agree with SSC Journeyman. I like a joke as much as the next guy, but to have to spend five or ten minutes of an otherwise...

Patrick2525 (4/1/2010)

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Not funny. Not being a database guru, I try to read and understand these articles when I get the chance to become more proficient, but rarely do I have...

Wow - some people have no sense of humor. How sad.

You mean she writes...

How often do you take full backups? It's worth taking your backups to another machine and restoring some of them and running DBCC CHECKDB on them to see if the...

Nice one Steve!

That may be so, but it...

I was the second opinion Gail was talking about. I monitor this forum but only usually jump in on the really nasty/obscure problems.

Thanks

No - they're not false positives. False positives were possible in 2000, but when I rewrote CHECKDB for 2005, some of the underlying mechanisms were changed to remove that possibility.

You...

Regardless of what the h/w diagnostics show, you do have a transient corruption problem with your I/O subsystem. That's the only these errors can occur, and to prove these problems,...

Consistency error on the snapshot file itself doesn't in any way mean the actual database itself has corruptions - but it does mean the I/O subsystem that msdb is on...

However, although the concurrent log backups will run fine, they will NOT be able to clear the log while a data backup is running. Log clearing will be deferred until...

It's not a negative attitude. And it's not bullying. I'm fed up of people posting 'advice' that is unhelpful.

But I'm done with this thread now.