Critical Status - Database-Oriented Issues Plus

It seems that everything has a critical status, especially when it comes to databases and software development! Here's a place for listing issues and ideas relating to database and development issues. I'll list problems and ideas mainly related to SQL Server 2005. Post your thoughts, advice or complaints! Later this year will be the 25th anniversary of being in the trenches of the IT industry. I specialize in database applications development. I'd like to share my experiences with everyone and learn of those of others. You never stop learning.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

When a database is stuck in restore mode

A vendor was working on one of our (their) DEV DBs. They were restoring it with something and did something to interupt it or it just got corrupt. I've tried a variety of things that could stop with no luck. finally upon searching for a solution, in a post of some forum foudn from googling, someone stated that you can:

"If no recovery option is specified in your command then it defaults to WITH RECOVERY...

I don't see any problem deleted the db and restoring it...but you can restore on top of db which is in loading status..."

So, therefore, I did a RESTORE, which I can now do after restarting the SQL and Agent services, WITH RECOVERY successfully! If you can not restore which I had previously tried to do getting an error stating it was still in progress of a restore, restart the services first then re-restore with recovery!

Good Luck!

2 comments:

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Unknown said...

I hope this will help you to fix this issue.
http://www.sqlrecoverysoftware.net/blog/sql-database-in-recovery-mode.html