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Automating DBCC CHECKDB on Full Backups

Shane O’Neill riffs off of a script:

Like many shops out there, we can’t run corruption checking on our main production database instance. So, then, what do we do? We take the backups and restore them to a test instances, and then run corruption checking on those restored databases.

At least this way we can test the backups we take can be restored, as well.

But, I don’t want to spend every day manually restoring and corruption checking these databases, so let’s automate this bit…

Click through for a script that Shane built off of a Madeira Data Solutions script that Eitan Blumin put together.

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