Sql Server Restore

 

Some statements I found useful to recover a database backup applying some transaction logs (had to step into this due to a wrong delete operation on a production database – no, it wasn’t me…).

RESTORE DATABASE [TheDatabase]
FROM DISK = 'D:\foldername\bak\FULL_20091102_024436.bak'
WITH
MOVE 'TheDatabase_Data' TO 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\TheDatabase_Data.mdf',
MOVE 'TheDatabase_log' TO 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\TheDatabase_Log.ldf',
NORECOVERY

RESTORE LOG [TheDatabase] FROM DISK = 'D:\foldername\bak\20091102_060214.bak' WITH NORECOVERY

RESTORE LOG [TheDatabase] FROM DISK = 'D:\foldername\bak\20091103_180221.bak' WITH NORECOVERY

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RESTORE LOG [TheDatabase] FROM DISK = 'D:\foldername\bak\20091105_000219.bak' WITH NORECOVERY

RESTORE LOG [TheDatabase] FROM DISK = 'D:\foldername\bak\20091105_060204.bak' WITH RECOVERY

Some comments: the NORECOVERY option used in all the statement but one causes Sql Server to leave the db in a non operational state; this is needed because we will apply other restore statements. In the last one I use the RECOVERY option, in order to put the database in operational state.

Obviously this is only a little part of the big big world of database maintenance: just to say, give a look at the RESTORE command syntax… http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186858.aspx

Bye!