I have a database that was a mirrored partner and went into suspended state. (Mirror Server was shut down).
I took the principal database out of mirroring using SSMS. But now I am unable to restore the mirror database so that I can set up the mirroring again.
When I run ALTER DATABASE X SET PARTNER OFF
on the mirror, SQL Server logs
Error 3456 (Could not redo log record)
When I run RESTORE
on this database from a backup - SQL Server tells me I cannot because the database is involved in mirroring.
Is there any other way to drop this database safely? I cannot take it offline and cannot delete it for the same reasons. It seems I cannot remove mirroring on the Mirror, for some reason. Thank you
Edit:
I should probably give more background. The situation came about because I shut down the OS before stopping SQL Server & SQL Agent services. (Assuming that the OS would trigger a safe shut down of these services, like others, not wise).
This probably caused some sort of corruption which makes the DB un-editable, even to remove it from mirroring. Aside from shutting down SQL Server and moving the .mdf / .ldf
files then restarting it - are there other options? Can I actually try editing the .ldf
file to remove the offending record, or something like that?