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Traditional database integrity checks in SQL Server can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially for large databases, even when using super cool tools like Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution. To address this challenge, I developed a TSQL script for performing incremental integrity checks, which significantly optimizes the process and reduces its impact on the server. Continue…

Introduction As a database administrator, one of your critical responsibilities is ensuring that your SQL Server database backups are reliable and can be restored successfully in case of any unforeseen issues. However, merely restoring a database isn’t enough to guarantee its integrity. In this article, we’ll explore various strategies and best practices for thoroughly testing your restored…

Got this error? Database consistency errors found – Event ID: 8957. DBCC CHECKDB (DBName) executed by domain\login found 3 errors and repaired 0 errors. Internal database snapshot has split point LSN | SOP – n/a Alerts Summary: 1 Critical, 0 Warning, 0 Resolved.DBCC CHECKDB Error Cause The DBCC CHECKDB command performs a comprehensive set of checks to ensure the physical and logical…

Introduction Maintaining the integrity of your SQL Server databases is crucial for ensuring data reliability and preventing corruption. One of the most powerful tools available for this purpose is DBCC CHECKDB. In this article, we’ll explore what DBCC CHECKDB does, how to use it effectively, and provide practical T-SQL code examples to help you incorporate it into your database maintenance…

Data Recovery : Page level restore in SQL Server

In this article, we shall discuss the importance of understanding the internals of the page restoration for a database administrator. Most of the time, performing a page-level restore suffices for database availability. A good backup strategy is a key to recovery or restoration, and SQL Server provides us with an option to fix database pages at a granular level. Performing a page level restore in…

Importance of Performing DBCC CHECKDB

You absolutely need to be performing a DBCC CHECKDB on all of your databases on a regular schedule. This includes the system databases. One example is Model database corruption leading to a TempDB issue, because the TempDB is created using the Model Database.

In this article by Simon Liew we get a better understanding of the potential issues by example.

The scenario starts with a perfectly…

Best Practice Inspection Tool for SQL Server

One of the things that you might find difficult to reveal, especially if you inherited the existing SQL Server environment, is determining the settings of your servers and if they are configured using the best practices for Windows and SQL Server. There is a free utility that attempts to reports this information called BPCheck. It is something that you run to check your best practices and sweep…