Rectifying error 8932 in MS SQL 2000 database

Microsoft SQL server is one of the best and most popular relational database management system that is being used world-wide by small to extremely large industries for maintaining their very important data. Undoubtedly, its less prone to damages but their might come a situation where a user encounters error 8932 in damaged MS SQL Server 2000 database. In MS SQL database, the Meta-data plays a very crucial role. A meta-data is responsible for keeping information about all the tables in the database. So, it becomes a necessity to take care of it as if to prevent all possible damages to this Meta-data.


Error 8932, usually comes on the screen of a computer when, the Meta-data due to any reason gets damaged or corrupts. In such, situation a user is recommended to use some in-built methods to recover the SQL database and if the in-built tool fails to do so, you are recommended to use any good third-party database recovery tool. Sometimes, a user also encounters the following error which is another form of error 8932:

“Table error: Object ID O_ID, index ID I_ID, column ‘COLUMN’. The column ID COL_ID is not valid for this table. The valid range is from 1 to MAX_COL_ID.”



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Which also suggests that the meta data of the RDBMS is corrupt and because of the corruption, it contains a column ID that is greater than the largest column ID in the table.

And in order to resolve this issue, you can follow the mentioned methods below:

  • You should check your computer for hardware issues: For that you should run hardware diagnostics and check error logs, this will help you to confirm whether the problem is in hardware or not.
  • Then if you have a backup file of the inaccessible data, you should restore it.
  • If the database is not up to date, you must run the DBCC CHECKDB command.

But even if the problem do not gets resolved, you are recommended to use some good third party MS SQL repair tool that is suitable for repairing all types of MS SQL DBMS corruption.

By following the above method you will definitely resolve the error 8932 in damaged MS SQL Server 2000 database and its associated issues.