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    Database suspect mode SQL server

    Database suspect mode One of my database went into suspect mode, it is not a critical one and small sized database. There was no backup 🙂 How to recovery the suspect database?   Paul Randal’s post https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/creating-detaching-re-attaching-and-fixing-a-suspect-database/ If you don’t have any backups, then the only way to get into the database is to use EMERGENCY mode. This lets you into the database but you need to be aware that recovery has not completed so the contents of the database are transactionally (and possibly structurally) inconsistent. I’m going to choose to repair the database using EMERGENCY-mode repair. See CHECKDB From Every Angle: EMERGENCY mode repair – the very, very last…