DBCC (DATABASE CONSOLE COMMANDS) COMMANDS

 > DBCC commands are used to check the consistency of the database or database objects. While executing DBCC commands the DB engine creates a database snapshot and then runs the checks against this snapshot. After the DBCC command is completed, this snapshot is dropped.

> It’s consuming hardware resources. The DBCC commands are most useful for performance and troubleshooting exercises.

DBCC commands broadly falls into four categories:

 Maintenance

 Informational

 Validation

 Miscellaneous

MAINTENANCE COMMANDS:

Perform the maintenance tasks on a database, index, or filegroup.

CLEANTABLE:

> Reclaims space from dropped variable-length columns in tables or indexed views.

DBCC CLEANTABLE (‘Database name’, ‘Table name’, size)

DBREINDEX:

> Rebuilds one or more indexes for a table in the specified database.

DBCC DBREINDEX (‘Table name’, ‘Index name’, Fill factor)

DROPCLEANBUFFERS:

> Removes all clean buffers from the buffer pool.

DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

FREEPROCCACHE:

> Removes all elements from the plan cache, removes a specific plan from the plan cache by specifying a plan handle or SQL handle, or removes all cache entries associated with a specified resource pool.

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE

INDEXDEFRAG:

> Defragments indexes of the specified table or view.

DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (‘Database name’,’Table name’,’index name, partition number’)

SHRINK DATABASE:

> Shrinks the size of the data and log files in the specified database.

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (‘Database name’, target percentage)

SHRINKFILE:

> Shrinks the size of the specified data or log file for the current database, or empties a file by moving the data from the specified file to other files in the same filegroup, allowing the file to be removed from the database. You can shrink a file to a size that is less than the size specified when it was created. This resets the minimum file size to the new value.

DBCC SHRINKFILE (‘File name’, target percentage)

INFORMATIONAL COMMANDS:

Performs tasks that gather and display various types of information.

CONCURRENCYVIOLATION:

> Is maintained for backward compatibility. It runs but returns no data.

DBCC CONCURRENCYVIOLAION

UPDATEUSAGE:

> Reports and corrects pages and row count inaccuracies in the catalog views. These inaccuracies may cause incorrect space usage reports returned by the sp_spaceused system stored procedure.

DBCC UPDATEUSAGE (‘Database name’)

INPUTBUFFER:

> Displays the last statement sent from a client to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

DBCC INPUTBUFFER (session id)

OPENTRAN:

> Displays information about the oldest active transaction and the oldest distributed and nondistributed replicated transactions.

DBCC OPENTRAN (‘database name’)

OUTPUTBUFFER:

> Returns the current output buffer in hexadecimal and ASCII format for the specified session_id.


DBCC OUTPUTBUFFER (session id)

PROCCACHE:

> Displays information in a table format about the procedure cache.

DBCC PROCCACHE

SHOW_STATISTICS:

> Displays the current distribution statistics for the specified target on the specified table.

DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS (table or index view name’, target)

SHOWCONTIG:

> Displays fragmentation information for the data and indexes of the specified table or view.

DBCC SHOWCONTIG (‘table name’)

SQLPERF:

> Provides the transaction log space usage statistics for all databases. It can also be used to reset wait and latch statistics.

DBCC SQLPERF (LOGSPACE)

TRACESTATUS:

> Display the status of trace flags.

DBCC TRACESTATUS (Trace number)

USEROPTIONS:

> Returns the SET options active (set) for the current connection.

DBCC USEROPTIONS

VALIDATION COMMANDS:

> Performs validation operations on a database, table, index, catalog, filegroup, or allocation of database pages.

CHECKALLOC:

> Checks the consistency of disk space allocation structures for a specified database.

DBCC CHECKALLOC (‘Database name’)

CHECKCATALOG:

> Checks for catalog consistency within the specified database.

DBCC CHECKCATALOG (‘Database name’)

CHECKCONSTRAINTS:

> Checks the integrity of a specified constraint or all constraints on a specified table in the current database.

DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS WITH ALL_CONSTRAINTS

CHECKDB:

> Checks the logical and physical integrity of all the objects in the specified database.

DBCC CHECKDB (‘Database name)

CHECKFILEGROUP:

> Checks the allocation and structural integrity of all tables and indexed views in the specified filegroup of the current database.



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