07-15-2025, 05:06 AM
If your SQL database is corrupted, first run DBCC CHECKDB to identify the issue. If it finds errors, you can try REPAIR_REBUILD or REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS, but be careful with the latter since it can remove data. In my case, the corruption was too bad and CHECKDB couldn’t fix it. I ended up using Stellar Repair for MS SQL to scan and recover the MDF file. It let me preview the tables before saving, and I got everything back without needing a backup. It worked really well when native tools failed.