title: No catalog entry found for partition ID xxxxx
body: <p>I need help understanding this error message in order explain the issue to management. Meeting is Monday afternoon. The problem occurred a few days ago and was resolved via restore, so the problem is not ongoing.</p>
  
  <p>The error message:</p>
  
  <p>No catalog entry found for partition ID 72057599467978752 in database 8. The metadata is inconsistent. Run DBCC CHECKDB to check for a metadata corruption.</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I know so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>There were a number of user tables produced this similar errors when I ran a select count(*) against them.|</li>
  <li>In the corrupt db's sys.partitions there was no partition_id with the number 72057599467978752.</li>
  <li>In the restored db's sys.partitions the number 72057599467978752
  does exist.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Here's what I need to know:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>What does the partition_id refer to? Is is a location in a physical
  file? </p></li>
  <li><p>What could have happened to cause the partition to disappear.</p></li>
  <li><p>Where else in the database is this partition_id(72057599467978752)
      stored, it must be somewhere in order to put it in the error
      message.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help.</p>
  
  <p>Brian</p>
  
  <p>NB: The DBCC CHECKDB didn't work for us. 
  Msg 8921, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
  Check terminated. A failure was detected while collecting facts. Possibly tempdb out of space or a <strong>system table is inconsistent.</strong> Check previous errors.</p>