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Tag: 1018 error

  • Exchange’s underappreciated single-page patching capability

    I really like single page patching, the facility first introduced in Exchange 2010 to enable a database to detect that a database page is corrupt and to retrieve replacement data from another database copy. It’s one of those elegant pieces of functionality that have been introduced as Microsoft improves levels of automated…

  • Fixing the -1018 problem for Exchange 2010

    One of the nice things about writing about technology is that you often unearth gems that developers have built into software that might be overlooked by many other folks. One such instance is the ability that Exchange 2010 has to patch individual pages within a database. In previous versions of Exchange,…