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Fun with Database Corruption

Chad Callihan isn’t in production:

When you’re not expecting it, database corruption is bad for your database server (and probably your own personal health). Database corruption can be fun though when you’re the one doing the corrupting. Let’s take a look at corrupting a database and see what we can learn.

Click through to see what kind of madness you can pull off and how to fix it. And if you get really excited about database corruption, check out Steve Stedman’s Database Corruption Challenge.