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Do we need to perform DBCC CHECKDB for TempDB

  • August 21, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    #146074

    Hi,

    I'm performing DBCC CHECKDB for all databases. But I'm not sure that we can perform DBCC CHECKDB on TempDb too.. Is that allowed?

    Because I'm using the maintenance plan Integrity check and this job NOT performing DBCC CHECKDB for tempDb.

    Please advice

    Thanks

  • August 21, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    #1371245

    It will not run properly because you can't have a snapshot of tempdb.

    It is not necessary for it is temporary and it gets recreated each time you restart the server.

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  • June 18, 2015 at 3:09 am

    #1806293

    we cannot perform DBCC CHECKDB on TempDB

  • June 18, 2015 at 3:14 am

    #1806294

    Please note: 4 year old thread.

    And you can run CheckDB on TempDB. It doesn't do the same amount of checks as for other databases, but it can be run.

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  • April 12, 2016 at 9:46 am

    #1871447

    GilaMonster (6/18/2015)

    Please note: 4 year old thread.

    And you can run CheckDB on TempDB. It doesn't do the same amount of checks as for other databases, but it can be run.

    Thanks, Gail. I know this thread is really old, but I have a question about it.

    I ran this command that I found on dba.stackexchange

    http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/80189/tempdb-not-selectable-for-dbcc-maintenance-plan

    DBCC CHECKDB(N'tempdb') WITH NO_INFOMSGS

    I tested it on my dev and staging SQL servers and it ran really fast, about 1 second. Did the command actually do any checking of tempdb? Or did it just execute successfully but not do anything useful?

    The reason I ask is that I used Brent Ozar's sp_Blitz tool and it returned a row saying "Last good DBCC CHECKDB over 2 weeks old" and "Database [tempdb] never had a successful DBCC CHECKDB. This check should be run regularly to catch any database corruption as soon as possible. Note: you can restore a backup of a busy production database to a test server and run DBCC CHECKDB against that to minimize impact. If you do that, you can ignore this warning."

    Thanks for any help.

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  • August 7, 2019 at 11:03 am

    #3669414

    I'm getting a SQL Server Alert System: 'Severity 021' message as of about 90 minutes ago

    Unable to find index entry in index ID 0, of table 340842130, in database 'tempdb'. The indicated index is corrupt or there is a problem with the current update plan. Run DBCC CHECKDB or DBCC CHECKTABLE

    Select object_name(340842130) gives me a tablename of NULL

    dbcc checkdb (tempdb) with no_infomsgs runs and reports no issues

    A few minutes later I get the same alert, albeit with a different table number

    There seem to be no other sysmptoms - I'm thinking of leaving it to the maintenance window and then restarting the service so that TempDB is recreated

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