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# available only in SQL Backup 7.0 and newer

To ensure that a backup file is valid, you would need to restore it. To ensure that the restored database is structurally valid, you would run the DBCC CHECKDB command.  SQL Backup allows you to perform the above 2 verification steps in a single RESTORE command.

To run a DBCC CHECKDB on the restored database, simply use the CHECKDB option e.g.

checkdb01

 

SQL Backup then runs the DBCC CHECKDB command on the restored database once the restore has completed, and reports the results.  In the case of a successful check, something like this is displayed:

checkdb02

 

If there were errors, SQL Backup reports the errors e.g.

checkdb03

By default, SQL Backup uses the NO_INFOMSGS option for the DBCC CHECKDB command.  You can use the usual DBCC CHECKDB options in your RESTORE command e.g.

checkdb04

 

 

To extend the usefulness of this feature further, you have the option of dropping the database after the consistency checks have completed, by using the DROPDB option e.g.

checkdb05

Or if you want to drop the database only if the consistency checks completed successfully, you can also do so using the DROPDBIFSUCCESSFUL option e.g.

checkdb06




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5/7/2012    Initial release.    
 
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