CHECKDB Archives - Born SQL

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Database Corruption Challenge

by Randolph
May 2, 2015November 23, 2019

Steve Stedman has been running a contest over on his site, the Database Corruption Challenge, which I discovered last week quite by chance through Twitter. Not to brag, but I’ve been the fastest to solve… Database Corruption Challenge

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Adventures in @BlobEater, sp_WhoIsActive and DBCC CHECKDB

by Randolph
March 30, 2012September 17, 2019

The latest version of sp_WhoIsActive (and apparently last for SQL Server 2005/2008, according to Adam Machanic), was released a week ago. Yesterday, out of curiosity piqued by my recent three-week SQLskills training, I decided to… Adventures in @BlobEater, sp_WhoIsActive and DBCC CHECKDB