Accidental DBA here (DB developer/jack of all trades), and first-time poster. So please be gentle. I have an alert on our SQL Server for error 825, and it fired in February. Then twice in June, and now three times in the past three weeks. The databases are for a vendor application. DBCC CHECKDB ran in production after the errors, and I also restored to a test server and ran again, with no errors. The errors occurred on two of the databases, one of which holds 99% of the application's data. No rows in suspect_pages.
I also wrote to the software/database vendor, and they pretty told me to do what I already did, and sent a bunch of cut-n-paste research that I've already found.
Everything I found says hardware or drivers. Our network/hardware is maintained by a third-party provider, and they say they don't see anything wrong with the disks. We run VMware on EMC - that's about all I know about hardware. SQL is Standard Edition 2008R2 SP3, running on Server 2008R2 Standard.
Oh, I changed DBCC CHECKDB to run daily.
We've been told we should hire a DBA because our disks are healthy.
Any advice?
Thanks, Pat