Resolve the blocking tree in multi-blocking situation
The situation where one or more session are blocking one or more sessions each, and the blocked ones block some other session(s) themselves is something that can occur.
Check if any long operation is running (Backup/Restore/DBCC CHECKDB)
You can check the progress of your Backup/Restore/CheckDB with the following statement
Check for suspect pages
SQL Servers keeps record of the corrupted pages it accesses in msdb table dbo.suspect_pages. Note that table only holds 1000 rows. Then again you should not find any records in it whenever querying it!
Check Backups
Following statement can be used to see the last backups of all databases. You get information of last backup’s start time, end time, duration in minutes, hours since last backup both for full and log backups. SELECT db.name,db.recovery_model_desc,d.[Database Backup Start],d.[Database…