What is database corruption?
Inconsistency in the internal structure of the database with
respect to data or log files is known as database corruption
What causes database Corruption?
- Physical Inconsistency - One or more access paths to the data may be invalid.
- Logical Inconsistency - One or more pointers to the data may be invalid
How to detect Corruption?
- Status of database set to “suspect”
- Evident from Error log and/or Event Viewer logs
- Consistency errors from DBCC CHECKDB
- T-SQL Queries or application throwing corruption related error (Database might be online without being suspect)
- SQL Server Startup Failure
- Failure while Restoring or Attaching databases
What are the causes that leads to database corruption?
- Hardware failure event
- Power outage
- SAN crash
- NTFS or File System Corruption
- FTDisk Errors
- Bad Block or Disk Corruption
- Outdated or Faulty Drivers
- Failed Restore/Attach
- Due to Bad File/Page
- Abnormal Termination of the process
- Corrupted Header
- User Error
- File Deletion/Renaming
- File Swapping
- 3rd Party Software
- Filter Drivers
- Outdated/Faulty Device Driver
Recovery Flows
- master Database

- model Database

- msdb Database

- tempdb Database

- User Database

1 comment:
Nice article.I had got corruption for report server.What cause ?
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