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[...] Restore Master Database – An Easy Solution It is really unusual to have need of restoring the master database. In very rare situations this need should arise. It is important to have a full backup of the master database, without full backup file of master database it can not be restored. [...]

By: Sudheer.K

Sudheer.K — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:25:12 +0000

hi,

i am not able to login to sql server 2008 r2 after restoriong the master database,the restore also not done properly and now i changed the server to multi user mode and now also i am unable to connect to sql server in any way mean through any login.can u please resolve my issue….

thanks in advance

By: raja

raja — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:57:37 +0000

hai im raja
iam tring to ssms throuh commnad line utility but it was not working i
get this Msg 18461, Level 14, State 1, Line 65536
Login failed for user ‘user123-PC\RAJA’. Reason: Server is in single user mode. Only one administrator can connect at this time.

By: eric081166

eric081166 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:58:58 +0000

Hello Dave,

I don’t understand something if the master.mdf is corrupted how you can run sqlcmd command.

Cheers,

Eric

By: jt

jt — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:53:45 +0000

Our server crashed last week, but a tech was able to recover the entire database data directory (including the master) and copied it to a new WIndows server. If I re-install SQL Server on the new server is there an easy way to “attach” or recover from the old data files? Tks.

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:58:56 +0000

Why do you want to do this?

By: Jannet

Jannet — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:15:40 +0000

Could I restore the master database on another server and another version of SQL, for example, a standard version to an enterprise version, you need to do to do

By: Rafał Ziółkowski

Rafał Ziółkowski — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:12:33 +0000

I will buy you beer or whatever beverage you want for your great tips, if we ever meet :)

By: IS

IS — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:35:07 +0000

I have a query now, we are using an application running with SQL server 2008. Here the problem is, I am trying to make a test server by taking the backup of user table from the production server. I am not able to connect. I found that all the application user access were created under the security of the user database. SO is it required to restore the master database in into our test server? or is there any other way? In the production server, we have many application/user databases where in our test server we have only one database for that particular application. Please advise.

By: Shovan Mukherjee

Shovan Mukherjee — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:56:53 +0000

If you have any FULL backup of the master DB ,restore it from command prompt (But make sure you are not restoring any other server’s Msater DB backup like the previous person IS),

If not available try to rebuild the master Db from the command prompt using the following command(in this case you will have to re create all the logins again & the previously existing logins will be lost)…

setup /ACTION=REBUILDDATABASE /QUIET /INSTANCENAME= /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS= /SAPWD=password

By: Gaddam Vijaya kumar

Gaddam Vijaya kumar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:42:32 +0000

once my master db is corrupted i tried to connect sql server but i was unable connect sql server.How to start sql server in single user mode and then how i ve to proceed

By: IS

IS — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:22:37 +0000

Hi,

I restored master database from our old server which has many database with single user mode. Now I am not able to startup the sql(2008 R2) server. I have many database bases in the old server where in new I have just created only one user database.
Error : The request failed or service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details.

Thx,

By: stanleyjohns

stanleyjohns — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:54:12 +0000

If you can find the location to your master.mdf and master.ldf, you can try to attach it back in the Configuration Manager>Advanced tab. At the -d and -l parameters, provide the location to your data and log files respectively.

By: Shovan Mukherjee

Shovan Mukherjee — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:52:29 +0000

I was trying to transfer the data file of my master database, using the following command,

alter database master
modify file
(
name = ‘master’,
filename = ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQL1\MSSQL\DATA\Master Database Files\master.mdf’
)

The above command worked fine,but after that when I restarted the SQL instence ,
the Master DB got corrupted and after that I tried a lot to rebuild the MASTER database,
But not able to rebuild the MASTER database properly…getting some error.Can anyone give me the exact spets,syntax for rebuilding MASTER DB?..
I dnt have any backup of Master DB,so rebuilding is the only one solutions.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:35:55 +0000

I think I found answer to my problem http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa213831%28v=SQL.80%29.aspx which explains how to rebuild your master model, msdb database so that you can restore them.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:21:07 +0000

hello, I have accidentally deleted the partition that holds all the system databases (master, model, msdb, etc…) I was able to get nearly everything back using a Tivoli file level restore but the databases could not be backed up so they could not be restored. So now I have an instance that cannot be started. I have the system databases backed up using sql backup but I cannot restore them because sql server will not start. Catch 22 please advise.

By: Subir Sankar Das

Subir Sankar Das — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:16:24 +0000

Without any Master DB backup, How Can I restore Master database.

Regards,

Subir

By: Mohammed Ashfaq

Mohammed Ashfaq — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:09:40 +0000

Thank you very much Pinal Dave… your blog make restore master database very easy and simple…

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:58:33 +0000

How do you do for in a Cluster?
Thanks

By: hernan

hernan — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:28:23 +0000

What about restoring master in different instance. ie. migrating to another server

By: Balaji

Balaji — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:33:35 +0000

If master database is full pls tell me recommendations.

By: Jolly

Jolly — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:38:20 +0000

Hi,
Actually after restoring database when i tried to start up server it giving error so , what will be solution of it? Please reply me as soon as possible

Thanks,
Jolly

By: Jolly

Jolly — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:37:53 +0000

Hi,
Actually after restoring database when i tried to start up server it giving error so , what will be solution of it? Please reply me as soon as possible

Thanks,
Jolly

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:54:58 +0000

Goto the property of the database and set Restrict Users to multi_user

By: Jabbar

Jabbar — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:58:10 +0000

Hi, the prev. mentioned error has been fixes, at the time m facing following error while trying to connect my sql instance of SQL Server 2005 Standard edition using sqlcmd,
“D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn>sqlcmd -S Mjunaid -U s
a -P lumensoft2003″
Msg 18461, Level 14, State 1, Server MJUNAID, Line 1
Login failed for user ‘sa’. Reason: Server is in single user mode. Only one admi
nistrator can connect at this time. Need help in this regards