TECHNOLOGY
Best Alternative to Repair SQL Database When DBCC CHECKDB Doesn’t Work
Stellar Repair for MS SQL: Best Alternative to Repair SQL Database When DBCC CHECKDB Doesn’t Work
SQL Server Database can get corrupted or become inaccessible due to various reasons, such as issues with the hardware, corruption of files stored within the SQL database, bugs in the software, sudden shutdown or power cut, etc. If database corruption is not handled carefully and at the right time, it can lead to major data loss and downtime. Therefore, it is extremely important to initiate SQL database repair as soon as possible.
The most feasible solution is to restore the database from a healthy backup. If the backup does not exist, running the DBCC CHECKDB commands can help in fixing the corrupted database. However, these commands can help fix minor corruption issues in the SQL database and may result in data loss. To repair a severely corrupted database with complete integrity, you need to use a specialized SQL database repair software, such as Stellar Repair for MS SQL.
Stellar Repair for MS SQL – An Overview
Stellar Repair for MS SQL helps in repairing severely corrupt, large-sized MS SQL database files (MDF or NDF). It can recover all the database objects, including tables, indexes, deleted records, triggers, keys, stored procedures, rules, etc. This professional SQL database repair solution is a much better alternative to the DBCC CHECKDB commands as it helps restore the database without any data loss. It is very easy to install and use. The software supports SQL Server 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008, and older versions.
Advanced Features and Benefits
Stellar Repair for MS SQL incorporates powerful repair algorithms to fix the corruption issues in MS SQL database. Some of the advanced features of the software include:
- Recovery of Deleted Tables and Records
The advanced algorithms of the software help in recovering the deleted tables and records.
- Smart Multiple Saving Options
The software helps in repairing corrupt SQL database files and allows you to save them in multiple formats. The repaired SQL file can be saved in MS SQL, HTML, CSV, and XLS formats.
- Real-time Preview of SQL Database Objects
The repairable items will be listed and shown in a tree-like structure in the left pane. You can select any item and view its contents in the right pane. The preview will help in verifying the repairable items.
The software is compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, and Windows Server 2008/2012. It supports the MS SQL version 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, and earlier versions.
Here is a step-by-step process to repair corrupt SQL database using the software:
Step 1: Install and Launch Stellar Repair for MS SQL
Before installing the software, let us know the prerequisites to install it:
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Hard Disk – 250 MB free space
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Memory – 32 GB (minimum 16 GB)
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Processor – Intel-compatible (x86, x64)
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MS SQL Server – 2019 and earlier versions
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Operating System – Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003 and Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7
It is very easy to install the software. Just download the .exe file from the software page, open it, and follow a few simple steps.
After installation, launch the software. It will open a pop-up message asking to stop the SQL server and copy the database to some other location.
Step 2: Select the File
Navigate and select the file that needs to be repaired using the Find or Browse option.
Step 3: Repair the File
After selecting the database file, click Repair. The software will provide two scan levels – Standard level to fast scan the file; and Advanced level to scan the file thoroughly. Select the appropriate scan option.
Step 4: Preview and Recover the Deleted Data
Once the scanning process is completed, the software previews the repaired database and all the recoverable objects. It also recover the deleted records. However, a log file is required to recover the deleted records.
Step 5: Save the Repaired Database
You can save the repaired database file to a New Database or in a Live Database. You can also save the file data in a format, like CSV, HTML, or XLS.
After selecting the saving option, provide the server details to connect to the server and choose the location to save the file. Click Next.
On clicking Next, two saving options will be provided. You can choose the Fast Saving option to save the repaired file quickly, with the data first and indexes later. If you want to save the data and indexes together, select the Standard Saving option.
Step 6: Check the Progress
On clicking Next, the software will start saving the records and indicate the status. The “Completed” status will show the saved records and the “Processing” status indicates the files that are getting saved. The rest of the records are shown under “Pending” status.
Verdict
Stellar Repair for MS SQL can be used efficiently to repair SQL database (MDF) files and restore the database with minimum downtime. You can easily check the preview of recoverable items and verify the data accuracy using the free demo version of this tool. After verifying the data, you can get the licensed version of Stellar Repair for MS SQL to save the repaired data. The advanced features, simple to use interface and reliability make it an ideal tool for repairing corrupt SQL database files.
TECHNOLOGY
Next-gen chips, Amazon Q, and speedy S3
AWS re:Invent, which has been taking place from November 27 and runs to December 1, has had its usual plethora of announcements: a total of 21 at time of print.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the huge potential impact of generative AI – ChatGPT officially turns one year old today – a lot of focus has been on the AI side for AWS’ announcements, including a major partnership inked with NVIDIA across infrastructure, software, and services.
Yet there has been plenty more announced at the Las Vegas jamboree besides. Here, CloudTech rounds up the best of the rest:
Next-generation chips
This was the other major AI-focused announcement at re:Invent: the launch of two new chips, AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2, for training and running AI and machine learning (ML) models, among other customer workloads. Graviton4 shapes up against its predecessor with 30% better compute performance, 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth, while Trainium2 delivers up to four times faster training than before and will be able to be deployed in EC2 UltraClusters of up to 100,000 chips.
The EC2 UltraClusters are designed to ‘deliver the highest performance, most energy efficient AI model training infrastructure in the cloud’, as AWS puts it. With it, customers will be able to train large language models in ‘a fraction of the time’, as well as double energy efficiency.
As ever, AWS offers customers who are already utilising these tools. Databricks, Epic and SAP are among the companies cited as using the new AWS-designed chips.
Zero-ETL integrations
AWS announced new Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) for MySQL integrations with Amazon Redshift, AWS’ cloud data warehouse. The zero-ETL integrations – eliminating the need to build ETL (extract, transform, load) data pipelines – make it easier to connect and analyse transactional data across various relational and non-relational databases in Amazon Redshift.
A simple example of how zero-ETL functions can be seen is in a hypothetical company which stores transactional data – time of transaction, items bought, where the transaction occurred – in a relational database, but use another analytics tool to analyse data in a non-relational database. To connect it all up, companies would previously have to construct ETL data pipelines which are a time and money sink.
The latest integrations “build on AWS’s zero-ETL foundation… so customers can quickly and easily connect all of their data, no matter where it lives,” the company said.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new storage class purpose-built for customers’ most frequently-accessed data. Data access speed is up to 10 times faster and request costs up to 50% lower than standard S3. Companies can also opt to collocate their Amazon S3 Express One Zone data in the same availability zone as their compute resources.
Companies and partners who are using Amazon S3 Express One Zone include ChaosSearch, Cloudera, and Pinterest.
Amazon Q
A new product, and an interesting pivot, again with generative AI at its core. Amazon Q was announced as a ‘new type of generative AI-powered assistant’ which can be tailored to a customer’s business. “Customers can get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, generate content, and take actions – all informed by a customer’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems,” AWS added. The service also can assist companies building on AWS, as well as companies using AWS applications for business intelligence, contact centres, and supply chain management.
Customers cited as early adopters include Accenture, BMW and Wunderkind.
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TECHNOLOGY
HCLTech and Cisco create collaborative hybrid workplaces
Digital comms specialist Cisco and global tech firm HCLTech have teamed up to launch Meeting-Rooms-as-a-Service (MRaaS).
Available on a subscription model, this solution modernises legacy meeting rooms and enables users to join meetings from any meeting solution provider using Webex devices.
The MRaaS solution helps enterprises simplify the design, implementation and maintenance of integrated meeting rooms, enabling seamless collaboration for their globally distributed hybrid workforces.
Rakshit Ghura, senior VP and Global head of digital workplace services, HCLTech, said: “MRaaS combines our consulting and managed services expertise with Cisco’s proficiency in Webex devices to change the way employees conceptualise, organise and interact in a collaborative environment for a modern hybrid work model.
“The common vision of our partnership is to elevate the collaboration experience at work and drive productivity through modern meeting rooms.”
Alexandra Zagury, VP of partner managed and as-a-Service Sales at Cisco, said: “Our partnership with HCLTech helps our clients transform their offices through cost-effective managed services that support the ongoing evolution of workspaces.
“As we reimagine the modern office, we are making it easier to support collaboration and productivity among workers, whether they are in the office or elsewhere.”
Cisco’s Webex collaboration devices harness the power of artificial intelligence to offer intuitive, seamless collaboration experiences, enabling meeting rooms with smart features such as meeting zones, intelligent people framing, optimised attendee audio and background noise removal, among others.
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TECHNOLOGY
Canonical releases low-touch private cloud MicroCloud
Canonical has announced the general availability of MicroCloud, a low-touch, open source cloud solution. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s growing cloud infrastructure portfolio.
It is purpose-built for scalable clusters and edge deployments for all types of enterprises. It is designed with simplicity, security and automation in mind, minimising the time and effort to both deploy and maintain it. Conveniently, enterprise support for MicroCloud is offered as part of Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro subscription, with several support tiers available, and priced per node.
MicroClouds are optimised for repeatable and reliable remote deployments. A single command initiates the orchestration and clustering of various components with minimal involvement by the user, resulting in a fully functional cloud within minutes. This simplified deployment process significantly reduces the barrier to entry, putting a production-grade cloud at everyone’s fingertips.
Juan Manuel Ventura, head of architectures & technologies at Spindox, said: “Cloud computing is not only about technology, it’s the beating heart of any modern industrial transformation, driving agility and innovation. Our mission is to provide our customers with the most effective ways to innovate and bring value; having a complexity-free cloud infrastructure is one important piece of that puzzle. With MicroCloud, the focus shifts away from struggling with cloud operations to solving real business challenges” says
In addition to seamless deployment, MicroCloud prioritises security and ease of maintenance. All MicroCloud components are built with strict confinement for increased security, with over-the-air transactional updates that preserve data and roll back on errors automatically. Upgrades to newer versions are handled automatically and without downtime, with the mechanisms to hold or schedule them as needed.
With this approach, MicroCloud caters to both on-premise clouds but also edge deployments at remote locations, allowing organisations to use the same infrastructure primitives and services wherever they are needed. It is suitable for business-in-branch office locations or industrial use inside a factory, as well as distributed locations where the focus is on replicability and unattended operations.
Cedric Gegout, VP of product at Canonical, said: “As data becomes more distributed, the infrastructure has to follow. Cloud computing is now distributed, spanning across data centres, far and near edge computing appliances. MicroCloud is our answer to that.
“By packaging known infrastructure primitives in a portable and unattended way, we are delivering a simpler, more prescriptive cloud experience that makes zero-ops a reality for many Industries.“
MicroCloud’s lightweight architecture makes it usable on both commodity and high-end hardware, with several ways to further reduce its footprint depending on your workload needs. In addition to the standard Ubuntu Server or Desktop, MicroClouds can be run on Ubuntu Core – a lightweight OS optimised for the edge. With Ubuntu Core, MicroClouds are a perfect solution for far-edge locations with limited computing capabilities. Users can choose to run their workloads using Kubernetes or via system containers. System containers based on LXD behave similarly to traditional VMs but consume fewer resources while providing bare-metal performance.
Coupled with Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro + Support subscription, MicroCloud users can benefit from an enterprise-grade open source cloud solution that is fully supported and with better economics. An Ubuntu Pro subscription offers security maintenance for the broadest collection of open-source software available from a single vendor today. It covers over 30k packages with a consistent security maintenance commitment, and additional features such as kernel livepatch, systems management at scale, certified compliance and hardening profiles enabling easy adoption for enterprises. With per-node pricing and no hidden fees, customers can rest assured that their environment is secure and supported without the expensive price tag typically associated with cloud solutions.
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