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Why can't I read my transaction log backup file using fn_dump_dblog?

I'm using this blog on sqlskills.com as a guide to practice finding the relevant LSN in a transaction log backup for point in time recovery. After backing up the transaction log, I attempt to read it ...
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Full and differential restore with two backup files - SQL Server 2008

We are trying to establish a maintenance plan with 2 separate backups. One full backup over the weekend and differential backups through the week. [the differential backup has a "_diff" appended to ...
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Data Backup and Restoring the same if requried in SQL SERVER 2008

In Multi-tenancy , Shared Database Shared Schema. How to take Tenant level backup and restored the tenant data when required? Can any one guide me or point me to the right direction. Thanks!!! NB: ...
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SQL Server Restore DB from MDF file, lost LDF and DB was not cleanly shutdown

My dev DB server was formatted by some admin without my knowledge. Thankfully I had mdf file kept in some other drive but ldf was in its default location. Since I don’t have DB backup I am now left ...
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SQL Server: in what situation can snapshot restore be blocked after SET SINGLE_USER?

In my tests, i have the following script: USE master; ALTER DATABASE [TestDB] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE RESTORE DATABASE [TestDB] FROM DATABASE_SNAPSHOT = 'TestDBSnapshot' In some ...
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Looking for a way of moving millions of record without impacting the transaction log

I need to move around 10 million records out of a table into a new "optimized" table, but I need to keep the database online. What would be the best method in doing this without impacting the ...
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Error When Restoring Log

Here is the situation. I have restored a database to replace an existing version (need to get it back to yesterday at a certain time). So I do a RESTORE DATABASE ... WITH NORECOVERY, REPLACE, etc... ...
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Database after restore process still display Restoring

I restored Database from Backup File (in Management Studio) and after restore, Database showed Restoring, then I deleted files from disk (engine's stopped), then I tried Restore again with success, on ...
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Restoring a backup to an older version of SQL Server

When trying to restore a backup to a SQL Server Express 2008 database I got the following error: Restore failed for Server '...\SQLEXPRESS'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended) ...
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SQL Server: cold backup, shutting down services?

One of our collagues told me that they are doing "cold" backups for SQL Server so that they are shutting down services and then taking a backup somehow. I think this is all wrong! Am I right? I think ...
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Restore encrypted database to another server

I'm using a product which runs on SQLServer 2008. Understandably the company supplying it don't offer SQLServer support. When I installed the product I specified a password to encrypt the database. ...
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A Non-DBA Asks: How to Painlessly Copy/Move a SQL Server instance to another Server via Backup/Restore?

We've just got a new server so I need to copy the existing SQL Server 2008 instance over from the old db box. I normally do this by copying .mdf and log files over and attaching them but I'm not able ...
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User Permissions Messed Up following a Backup -> Restore Operation

I had to move several SQL Server 2008 databases to our new db server so I backed them all up (to .bak files), copied these files over to the new box and restored them (all done using SQL Management ...
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How to restore multiple backups

I'm using ExpressMaint and Windows Scheduled Tasks to create weekly full and daily differential backups of some MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Express databases Weekly fulls expressmaint -S ...
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How to restore database using old full backup and current log file

What is happened? My client has lost the hard disk. He has to restore database. He has the full backup of database 15 days old. He has ldf (log) file of this database. He has NOT mdf file (it was ...