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We had several power outages and server rebooted couple times which seemed to cause issues with one of the databases. We tried detaching at attaching database again but it looks like database is corrupted and we’re getting the
Msg 5172, Level 16, State 15, Line 1
Claiming that database header is invalid. Is there anything we can to do repair database or extract data from MDF file? We do have a backup but it’s like 2 weeks old and doesn’t contain all data.
I’d try the procedure described below or third party tool such as ApexSQL Recover if that doesn’t work and database is severely corrupted.
There might be other options out there. This is something that worked for me once but there are no guarantees that it will work at all times.
Stop SQL Server instance -> Copy MDF and LDF files to another location -> Delete original MDF and LDF files -> Start SQL Server instance again -> Create new database with exact same name and file names -> Stop SQL Server -> overwrite newly created MDF and LDF.
After this your database should be back online. If it is then go ahead and put it into EMERGANCY mode and SINGLE USER mode.
Finally go ahead and execute DBCC CHECKDB like this
DBCC CHECKDB (databaseName, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS) WITH NO_INFOMSGS
If you can get to this and execute last command successfully you should be good. If not then your only options are restoring from backup and/or using 3rd party tools.