DBCC statements are Database CONSOLE Commands and come in four flavors:

Maintenance, Informational, Validation, and Miscellaneous. Maintenance commands are those commands that allow the DBA to perform maintenance activities on the database such as SHRINKING a file. Informational commands provide feedback regarding the database such as providing information about the procedure cache. Validation commands include commands that validate the database such as the ever-popular CHECKDB. FINALLY, miscellaneous commands are those that obviously don’t fit in the other three CATEGORIES. This includes statements like DBCC HELP, which PROVIDES the syntax for a given DBCC command.

DBCC statements are Database Console Commands and come in four flavors:

Maintenance, Informational, Validation, and Miscellaneous. Maintenance commands are those commands that allow the DBA to perform maintenance activities on the database such as shrinking a file. Informational commands provide feedback regarding the database such as providing information about the procedure cache. Validation commands include commands that validate the database such as the ever-popular CHECKDB. Finally, miscellaneous commands are those that obviously don’t fit in the other three categories. This includes statements like DBCC HELP, which provides the syntax for a given DBCC command.