Suspect msdb database - Microsoft SQL Server

Hallgeir

My msdb database is marked as suspect. This means that my maintenance plan
doesn't work. I'm a novice when it comes to sql server so now I'm wondering
if anyone could give a hint on how to fix the suspect msdb database? Does
this database contain any vital information? What could be the reason that
this database become suspect?

Appreciate any suggestions in this matter.
Thanks!

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mvh
Hallgeir

Jul 23 '05 #1

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Erland Sommarskog

Hallgeir (ha************ @unitechsys.no) writes:

My msdb database is marked as suspect. This means that my maintenance
plan doesn't work. I'm a novice when it comes to sql server so now I'm
wondering if anyone could give a hint on how to fix the suspect msdb
database? Does this database contain any vital information? What could
be the reason that this database become suspect?

If you look up "suspect" in the Index of Books Online, you will find a
troubleshooting article that says that the cause is lack of disk space.
However, I believe that there are possible reasons as well - read:
corruption.

This topic also discusses you can address the problem, if the issue is
indeed lack of diskspace.

If the problem is corruption, restoring a backup may be a safer way to go.

The msdb database is the database that holds information about SQL Server
Agent jobs (of which the maintenance plan is one). It also have tables for
backup history of databases. It's definitely a database that you should
back up regularly. It's usually not that big, so it sounds a little funny
that you would run of disk space because of it.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarsk og.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinf...2000/books.asp

Jul 23 '05 #2

Hallgeir

Thank you Erland! Your answer should help me a a great deal.

Regards Hallgeir.
"Erland Sommarskog" <es****@sommars kog.se> skrev i melding
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Hallgeir (ha************ @unitechsys.no) writes:
My msdb database is marked as suspect. This means that my maintenance
plan doesn't work. I'm a novice when it comes to sql server so now I'm
wondering if anyone could give a hint on how to fix the suspect msdb
database? Does this database contain any vital information? What could
be the reason that this database become suspect?

If you look up "suspect" in the Index of Books Online, you will find a
troubleshooting article that says that the cause is lack of disk space.
However, I believe that there are possible reasons as well - read:
corruption.

This topic also discusses you can address the problem, if the issue is
indeed lack of diskspace.

If the problem is corruption, restoring a backup may be a safer way to go.

The msdb database is the database that holds information about SQL Server
Agent jobs (of which the maintenance plan is one). It also have tables for
backup history of databases. It's definitely a database that you should
back up regularly. It's usually not that big, so it sounds a little funny
that you would run of disk space because of it.
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarsk og.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinf...2000/books.asp

Jul 23 '05 #3

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