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8992

06/09/2025 Product Name Event ID 8992 Event Source MSSQLSERVER Component SQLEngine Symbolic Name DBCC3_CHECK_CATALOG Message Text Check Catalog Msg ERRO

Product Name

Event ID

8992

Event Source

MSSQLSERVER

Component

SQLEngine

Symbolic Name

DBCC3_CHECK_CATALOG

Message Text

Check Catalog Msg ERROR Level LEVEL State STATE: MESSAGE.

or

found an inconsistency in the system metadata tables for

the specified object. That is, there’s an inconsistency between the recorded object ID and the

object specified in error message.

This error can occur when one or more system tables were manually updated in a way that

creates an inconsistency in the system metadata. For example, you might manually delete an

object from the

table without removing associated rows in other tables such as

and.

This error can occur when running

against a database that was upgraded from

2000 (8.x) to a later version of SQL Server. In SQL Server 2000 (8.x),

Expand table

Note

8992 Error message references another specific message (ranging from 3851 to 3858)

about the actual inconsistency.

DBCC CHECKCATALOG
DBCC CHECKDB sysobjects sysindexes syscolumns