SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Work of a DBA is never to be underestimated

Work of a DBA is never to be underestimated. An effective DBA’s role maybe understated for the 364 days in a year but for that 1 day when the database gets into a corrupt state is when all the skills come to the fore. Recently while working on a 24x7 large database split into multiple filegroups got into a corrupt state. DBA brought the database ONLINE quickly and was doing a restore in the background. To understand what he would have done, what is Piecemeal Restore inside SQL Server? When was t