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Almost a year ago to the day I asked a question on my old blog - how long does *your* CHECKDB take to run? Well, I had a bunch of replies but I never got around to posting the results. I was reminded of this recently so threw together some graphs of the results. I've plotted database size against run-time of DBCC CHECKDB, for a number of ...

This is a subject I posted about last year on my old blog but it came up at SQL Connections last week several times so I want to repost it for those who’ve just started following my blog. There's only one time when you should be trying to work out how long a CHECKDB is going to take - when you're planning your regular database ...