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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook

By : Satya Shyam K Jayanty
Book Image

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook

By: Satya Shyam K Jayanty

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
More DBA Manageability Best Practices

Configuring a manageable database consistency and integrity process for multiple databases and a VLDB environment


The data quality must be kept intact and the method to keep up is difficult to maintain for multiple databases and a VLDB environment too. The default response to recover the data from a disaster is to restore it from the backup tape of a file, but in cases where the source media such as a tape is crinkled or the backup file server disk has a problem, the recovery can be expensive. In this case, gigabytes of data might be lost just because of a hardware problem. There are few methods available in SQL Server to recover the data using the database consistency process, which involves a repair of corrupted data stored within the database.

As mentioned earlier, the data recovery will involve a REPAIR option that must be used as a last resort. Using this option might present a potential risk of losing database pages that will cause further data loss. However, if a nonclustered index...