SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Extended Checks


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Last week’s post (SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better) talked about several improvements to DBCC CHECKDB to make it run faster. In today’s post, we will talk about additional improvements to extended logical checks.

 

When checking database consistency using DBCC CHECKDB, in addition to the amount of data or number of tables and indexes, the duration can be exponentially longer, (for example: some customer workloads have reported 10x slower performance for CHECKDB if the database has filtered indexes), if the database tables being checked contain one of the following data types or