Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
DBCC CHECKDB Output
DBCC CHECKDB outputs information in four ways:
Regular output, consisting of a list of errors and informational messages to the connection issuing the DBCC CHECKDB command
A message in the SQL Server error log
An entry in the Microsoft Windows application event log
Progress reporting information in the sys.dm_exec_requests catalog view
Regular Output
By default, DBCC CHECKDB reports the following:
A summary of the Service Broker consistency checks
A list of allocation errors, plus a count of these errors
A list of errors where the affected table cannot be determined, plus a count of these errors
For each table in the database (including system catalogs):
The number of rows and pages
The list of errors, along with a count of these errors ...
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