Comments on: SQL SERVER – Restore Database Without or With Backup – Everything About Restore and Backup

By: Prashant Mishra

Prashant Mishra — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:38:24 +0000

Hi Pinal

Is there any way or Sql Statement to find out the list of file name from a specified path.

I want to provide a path of a folder (e.g. d:\prashant\) and Sql Statement or program should return all file names available in the d:\prashant\.

Please help

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Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:33:37 +0000

[...] Restore Database Without or With Backup – Everything About Restore and Backup [...]

By: Urvish Sheth

Urvish Sheth — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:22:31 +0000

Hello Sir,

I have created one Store procedure for Backup and Restore a database. When i run my application and execute store procedure from it then my new database status is Restoring. It is not resrtore completely. Following is the commond i use to restore database.

Use Master
restore database TestDB
from disk=’\\162.18.0.23\c$\backup\MyDB.bak’
with move ‘MYDB’ to ‘C:\database\TestDB_data.mdf’,
move ‘MYDB_log’ to ‘C:\database\TestDB_log.ldf’

restore database TestDB with recovery

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:54:07 +0000

I hope this is interesting enough to warrant a piece of your time Pinal Dave..

I have an application that remotely sync’s a database by copying across differential backups, for various reasons we cannot use replication options and everything is working perfectly except for one scenario..

when we restore a differential backup that contains no data changes the following backups fail as they do not refer to the correct differential base ( a new full backup is created on the local machine when a successful restore on our server has taken place then the next time it runs it creates a new differential from this new base) however since the empty differential restore did not commit its changes each subsequent restore refers to the old differential base

Is there a way to force a differential restore to update its base or to prevent it from returning a successful restore when it contains no data?

By: Lord Belial

Lord Belial — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:01:11 +0000

I see, that’s a shame but now I understand why is so important to have backups, thanks for the response.

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:38:08 +0000

SQL Server deletes it from the physical disks. So I dont think you can retreive it until you have a recent backup. Howvere detaching the database will not delete files from disk

By: Lord Belial

Lord Belial — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:24:59 +0000

Good afternoon.
One question, if I deleted a database by sdelecting right click – delete, where do files .ldf and .mdf go? They don’t appear in recycle folder, but they must go somewhere, could there be a possibility for recover those files?

Thanks in advance.

By: Mcatoe

Mcatoe — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:58:53 +0000

I would like to ask…. How could you modify multiple databases in a weekly job to have ALL databases maintain a BUFFERed usable amount of file growth available for ‘Initial Size(MB) ‘

eg. ALTER DATABASE [DB1_base]
MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N’DB1_base’, SIZE = 3999744KB )
If SIZE < 20% USED file size increase FILE SIZE + 20%
GO
ALTER DATABASE [DB1_base]
MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'DB1_log', SIZE = 1009664KB )
If SIZE < 20% USED file size increase FILE SIZE + 20%
GO

By: Madhumitha

Madhumitha — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:56:32 +0000

hi…
Im stuck up with a prob…. i happened to uninstall the default instance of sql server 2005 management studio express in my system… but after doinga system restore i brought back it… but after ths, all my systemdatabases like master, model n temp mdf and ldf files are missing… so when i try to connect to dataase server its saying error 26, not able to connect to server due to network specific or instance-specific error…. howto bring back my system databases for oper functioning of sql server 2005…. kindly help

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:50:57 +0000

Use master
GO
–your restore statement

By: sameer

sameer — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:48:31 +0000

hi i facing the error while restore my database, my sql restore query is ‘RESTORE DATABASE Frogy FROM DISK = ‘D:\Frogy Automatic Database Backup\Frogy.02.12.2010.BAK’ WITH REPLACE, MOVE ‘Frog’ TO ‘C:\MSSQL\DATA\Frog_Data.MDF’, MOVE ‘Frog_log’ TO ‘C:\MSSQL\DATA\Frog_Log.LDF”

but iam facing the error like this ‘

RESTORE cannot process database ‘Frogy’ because it is in use by this session. It is recommended that the master database be used when performing this operation. RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally’

how shall i rectify this error gyz

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:58:01 +0000

You need to point application’s default database to other database like master

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:28:24 +0000

What was the error you got during restoreing the database?

By: vinit singh

vinit singh — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:01:25 +0000

how to restore a database. the scenario is–
i make a software that use to take a full or differential back up and i use store procedure to take back up.
but when i want to restore that back up. its create problem
by store procedure execution i can restore backup but in that instance s/w should not be in running mode.

how to solve this problem ..
if i use locking system then is it possible.
if yes then how..

please help me

thanks and regards..

vinit singh

By: vint singh

vint singh — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:54:22 +0000

u can get deleted table by restoring 3 days old back up.but the work that perform on these three days is not get. if u restore backup with “10.31 – took full backup ” back up u cannot get the deleted table.
there is no any way to get both last 3 days work and deleted table.

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:30:30 +0000

You need to make use of the restore command

Restore database your_db from disk=’backup path’

By: Ranjith Daniel

Ranjith Daniel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:49 +0000

I take backup in sql server 2005 in windows 7. But i need to restore the backup file in to sql server 2005 in windows xp sp2.
i tried but i can’t able to find the solution..
Plz replay to me…

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:14:49 +0000

You need to restore the database and delete all data from all tables

By: Deep

Deep — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:24:30 +0000

how to restore a database from a backup file which contains data, but i want to restore the database with no data(i just need only table structure)

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:01:31 +0000

Refer this. It may help you in taking backup by appending current date

http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/backup-database.aspx

The follwoing will help you in doing it for all databases excluding the system databases

http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2010/05/10/backup-all-databases.aspx

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:50:07 +0000

Take a backup
Move the file to another compute
Using restore command restore the database

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:48:35 +0000

Backup database your_db to disk=’file_path’

By: Jhanvy

Jhanvy — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:04:30 +0000

Hello,

I want to take regular backup of my database that shows along with it month, date & time using stored procedure.
I have written following sql command for that purpose :

DECLARE @str nvarchar(10), @sql NVARCHAR(1024)

SET @sql = N’select @str=Left(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), GETDATE(), 101),2)+substring(convert(varchar(10),getdate(),101),4,2)+substring(convert(varchar(20),getdate(),108),1,(patindex(”%:%”,convert(varchar(20),getdate(),108))-1))+substring(convert(varchar(20),getdate(),108),(patindex(”%:%”,convert(varchar(20),getdate(),108))+1),2)’

EXEC sp_executesql @query = @sql,@params = N’@str nvarchar(10) OUTPUT’, @str = @str OUTPUT

BACKUP DATABASE [MyDatabaseName] TO DISK = N ‘E:\data\backup\Cmpl’ + @str + ‘.bak’
GO

Then the command returns error near the ‘+’ sign. That is it does not concat the path and string.

Please resolve the error.

By: Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:10:00 +0000

Hello Nanda,

You can get the tables in 3 days old status from 3 days old backup.
If after dropping the tables, you would have taken the transaction log backup first then you would be able to completely recover the tables but by taking the full backup lost the log as well as the possibility to recover later than 3 days old status.

Regards,
Pinal Dave

By: nanda

nanda — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:44:19 +0000

hi,
i need help restoring my db.

accidently i deleted 2 tables. immediately i did take full backup and log backup. but i couldn’t retrieve my lost tables. unfortunate i have 3 days old full backup and no log backup. is it possible to retrieve my lost table?
Scenario:
10:30 – deleted 2 tables
10.31 – took full backup
10.33 – took log backup

i guess i did blunder!

help me

Thanks in advance

Nanda