Hi everyone, I am hoping that you can help me. I had a SQL that got destroyed by someone re-initializing the disks on a RAID array and destroying the data. Here's the problem:
I have managed to restore the DB from a very old backup, and I tried replacing the MDF and LDF files with the ones that I recovered from a backup. The problem is that the new MDF and LDF files were not detached in the copy that I have, so when I start up the SQL server EM shows the DB as Loading/Suspect. I have tried restoring the database using sp_attach_db, sp_attach_single_file_db. I get the error The log for database DBName is corrupt' when I use sp_attach_db, and when I use sp_attach_single_file_db I get the error 'Database 'DBName' cannot be opened because some of the files could not be activated'
What can I do? Can a database be restored from an MDF file that wasn't de-attached first?
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Posted by:
smol45
10 years ago
Hi..U can get info here:
· Click the Windows "Start" button and enter "cmd"into the text box. Press "Enter" to open your command line utility.
· Type thefollowing command into the command prompt and press "Enter":
cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\SetupBootstrap\Release
This points the command prompt to the location of therebuild executable files.
· Type thefollowing text into the command line and press "Enter":
Setup.Exe /Action=RebuildDatabase/InstanceName=MSSQLSERVER /SqlSysAdminAccounts=Admin
This command rebuilds the database. It may takeseveral minutes to complete. Once it is finished, the command line returns asuccess message.