I accidently deleted rows from several SQL Server tables. How do I restore those rows? I have admin. privs on the DB server. This is SQL Server running on a Win2000 server machine. This is very urgent!!!!! i need this data back ASAP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.!!!! thanks David
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hi Lowfatspread
Is there any chances that we can rollack our transaction from a particular point(say in anotherwords we have deleted records in a comitted transaction and in the next transaction we wants to retrive it. Is there any way to apply this ?
For Example In Visual FoxPro u can delete records and recall it until u are apply the pack command. Is there any privilege like that in SQL Server
If the recover mode on the database is set to full, you can perform a full backup (with transaction log) and turn around and restore the backup your just made but do a point in time restore stopping at the time you did the delete....
Search in books online for point-in-time.
Most people don't realize they can backup AFTER the delete (if recovery mode is full) and still do a point in time restore....
Brett
edwardsearch, since Visual FoxPro stores its data in a flat file format, it would be ineffecient to rewrite the whole file every time you delete a record. So it just marks the record as deleted until you pack it. SQL Server, OTOH, very effeciently uses b-tree index pages (or heaps on tablea with no clustered indexes) and reclaims the space for re-use as soon as the record is deleted.
If you don't have one already, it's time to work on your backup procedures and disaster recovery plan.
BTW, That's cool, arbert. I never thought about that. I hope I can whip that one out sometime to the oohs and ahs of management types.
"BTW, That's cool, arbert. I never thought about that. I hope I can whip that one out sometime to the oohs and ahs of management types."
It happened to be on the top of my mind because I just had to do it for a user the other day :) Something you really don't think about too much until your butt's on the line :)
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by: LowfatspreadPosted on 2004-03-27 at 23:52:40ID: 10697583
do you have a backup of the database from a point in time where the rows would be present?
if so restore that as a new database
and retrieve the rows from there
good luck...