Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals
by Bob Beauchemin Kalen Delaney Conor Cunningham, Jonathan Kehayias, Benjamin Nevarez, and Paul S. Randal
Chapter 14. DBCC internals
Paul Randal
When anyone mentions consistency checking a Microsoft SQL Server database, the first thing that comes to mind is “DBCC.” In SQL Server 7.0, DBCC stood for Database Consistency Checker, but Microsoft changed the acronym’s meaning in SQL Server 2000 to Database Console Command. This change indicated that the DBCC family had grown to do much more than just check consistency and was intended to help dispel the perception that SQL Server databases required regular consistency checking because SQL Server itself caused corruption.
This chapter gives you a short explanation of the DBCC commands used for shrinking a file or database, which are some of the most misunderstood and misused of the non-consistency–checking ...
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