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ilimax
Posting Yak Master

164 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:04:50
Accidantelly I dropped the whole table from SQL Server Enterprise Manager.
Is there any way I can bring back my table. There was about 7000 records.

Help please!!!

Thanks,

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:12:20
Do you have backups?

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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NeilG
Aged Yak Warrior

530 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:15:33
Have you an form of backups that you can perform a point in time restore from or even a snapshot of the db that you can restore the table from that snapshot
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ilimax
Posting Yak Master

164 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:18:36
Our network administrator just told me he did not made backup last night.
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:19:48
Why aren't your backups scheduled? No one should have to manually backup a database each night.

Why is the network administrator responsible for backups in the first place though?

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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ilimax
Posting Yak Master

164 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:24:52

Actually SQL Agent was stopped for some reason. It is happened sometimes that we see agent is turnned off by itself ( or any other process stop the agent)

Do you know what can stop the agent?
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:27:18
Check the Application Log in Event Viewer for the reason why it stopped.

Don't have you monitoring in place to know when services stop either purposefully or unexpectedly? We use Microsoft MOM product to monitor such an event.

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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Van
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

462 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-28 : 15:36:01
You could take an old backup and restore it to a different db or different server and get the records back that way. But you need to get your backup situation fixed asap though.
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rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-29 : 02:38:26
Or recover the table with third party tools.
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sqlserverdeveloper
Posting Yak Master

243 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-29 : 17:05:21
Can we recover just 2 table's for example from the db backup file using third party tools, if so what are those tools. Thanks.
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Van
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

462 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-29 : 17:18:05
You could get lumigent log explorer and it can look at your log backup (or live log) and once you find the transaction that dropped the tables, it can generate the script to get it back (I think). Personally I think the best bet is to restore your backup from a day or two earlier to a different db or server and recover your tables that way.
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