Comparison of Soft and Hard Faults

When dbcc checkstorage finds a fault in the target database, it is recorded in the dbcc_faults table as either a soft fault or a hard fault.

• Soft Faults
  A soft fault is an inconsistency in SAP ASE that is usually not persistent.
• Hard Faults
  A hard fault is a persistent corruption of SAP ASE that cannot be corrected by restarting SAP ASE.