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Is it there anyway to restore updated records in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2?

We have an test database configured with our web application. Due to internal web application error the entries were get updated in the database. Is it there any way to recover the updated records? ...
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Will Startup Procs Run Again After Database Recovery?

We have a number of stored procedures that run on startup via the sp_procoption startup: exec sp_procoption 'ProcName', 'startup, 'true' A customer's server started up with a very large database in ...
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SQL Server - contents of transaction log file in more detail

I have a question regarding transaction log (let’s just call it LDF for short) contents. I am assuming a database with full recovery model. I have read that LDF file contains (logs) each and every ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 database is suspect, tried it all. Final destination?

This night my hosting provider made a "hard reset" on my VPS hosted in their farm. And one of most important databases (SQL Server 2008R2 database) is now in Suspect mode. My provider has backups ...
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Does it make sense to use full recovery if the data and log files are on the same HD?

We have a database that was set up to use full recovery and my guess is that the reasoning was only to prevent data loss if a failure happened between backups. We make daily full backups of the ...
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sql server down bad things happens

Following Situation: You have a Database with very high transactions, the Database is about 4100 GBs The Recovery Modell from your Database is full Every week you make a full backup from your ...
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Is it possible to recover day's worth of queries from sql server log file?

I lost all data entered and edited in my system yesterday, and my ISP has announced to me that last night's backup is corrupt and cannot be recovered. Is there any way to access the database's log ...
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Electricity off while shrinking database, how can I recover my database?

While i execute shrink database, the electricity has been gone down, I can't access my database now, it is (In Recovery), how can i recover it?? Note: it is a very huge database: 25 GB. EDIT: My ...
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Recover deleted records [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I get back some deleted records? Our C#.NET application mistakenly deleted all records from all tables of its database. The application automatically takes ...
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RSync Database File Deltas in SQL Server 2008

Alright, I feel like this is a terrible idea, but I need some help understanding why this is bad: I'm still working on implementing a disaster recovery/business continuity solution for our ...
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SQL ServerRecovery Model Change Tracking

Are SQL Server recovery model changes logged anywhere...WMI, error logs...etc? For instance, if I change from FULL to SIMPLE, is this recorded anywhere?
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Can you recover to a point in time using the LDF? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I get back some deleted records? A coworker accidentally ran an update statement that needs to be reverted. The last backup is about 12 hours old. Is there any ...
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Restore bak file to smaller mdf and ldf database files

I have a legacy database whose nightmarish lack of design I will not get into here, but the files on the server are (relatively) enormous. I have: MyDatabase.mdf: 24.8GB MyDatabase.ldf: 114.6GB This ...
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Is it good idea to change Simple Recover Model into Bulk-Logged on ETL system?

We are having an ETL process which inserts lots of data into tables. This database is set to Simple Recovery Model and the transaction log is growing a lot. I was thinking that would it help to set ...
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recover broken msde 2000 8.0 database

i have a msde (mssql) 2000 / v8.0 database that has one corrupted table. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express can see the database STRUCTURE, but not the data. i can see the DATA of the ...
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How can I recover data from the LDF file?

We are using SQL 2005 Express Edition. We want to read the data from the LDF file in order to restore some deleted records. We tried using a trial version of ApexSQL which helped us a lot. Instead of ...
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What is a good way to verify that a restore completed successfully in SQL Server?

Right now, we test our SQL backups once a month by pulling the most recent backup file and restoring it onto a test database. If SQL Server says the restore is successful, we spot-check a few tables ...
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Database 'MyDb' is being recovered. Waiting until recovery is finished

I got so error: Database 'MyDb' is being recovered. Waiting until recovery is finished. I have had a critical operation at that time. What is the cause of this situation? And how can it be ...
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SQL Server recovery with LVM snapshot as base

Is it possible to fully recover a database from a snapshot plus transaction log backups? By snapshot I mean a crash-consistent clone of the Server - in this case an LVM snapshot that is shipped ...
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Recover accidentally deleted rows from a table

My client has accidentally deleted all the records of a table from a test database. This test database is in SQL Server 2005 Express and we don't have a backup. Is it possible to restore the deleted ...
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SQL Server shows database in recovery

I'm a junior DBA and I have a very strange problem with one database. Today, after a power failure, one database (with Recovery: full) show (In recovery) in SSMS ie: myDatabase (In recovery) ...
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How do I get back some deleted records?

I mistakenly deleted around 2,000,000 records from a remote SQL Server 2008 table. The server is not granting me access to the backup files on the server side. Is there any way to get back these ...