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Ronnie Overby
Asked: 2010-03-04 08:10:39 +0800 CST

Restore data from sql server 2008 transaction log

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I have a sql server 2008 database that is in Full Recovery mode.

I haven't made a backup of the database or log.

Some data was inadvertently deleted from the database. I would like to go back to before the point in time that the data was deleted. How can I do this?

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1 Answers

  1. You cannot. Because you never did a backup, the database was not in full recovery mode, was in simple recovery mode (despite the setting), see is that database REALLY in the FULL recovery mode?. So the log was recycled since the delete occurred, making it impossible to recover anything.

    But it begs the question: if you did set the recovery model to FULL, why didn't you also took a backup immediately?

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