How to repair indexes in a MS SQL database
By Allen Stoner
It rarely happens, but occassionally a MS SQL Server will database will become corrupt. This is often caused by an index getting out of sync and can be repaired with a simple DBCC rebuild. The sample also shows how to put a database into single user mode and take it back out of single user mode.
-- Database must be in single user mode to repair indexes
exec sp_dboption 'dbName', 'single user', 'TRUE'
-- Repair the indexes in the database 'dbName' by rebuilding them, this if the option
-- that is to prevent data loss. There are other options to do it faster but
they
-- may cause data loss.
dbcc checkdb (dbName, REPAIR_REBUILD )
-- Let users back into the database by turnning off single user mode
exec sp_dboption 'dbName', 'single user', 'FALSE'
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