SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #011 - DBCC

An interview question.

What does DBCC stand for?

When classes related to Administration are being conducted, I always ask this question and as expected, I always get the same answer which is wrong. Most think that this is as Database Consistency Checker but that is the oldest way of describing this.

DBCC Command family was originally supporting Consistency related commands. Version upgrades added more and more commands to this family and they were not only for checking the consistency of our databases. Therefore, since SQL Server 2000, this was started referring as Database Console Commands. 

Read more on DBCC at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188796.aspx.