recovery from a delete statement

I ran some delete statements in Query Analyzer and I
found out it was the wrong database. Can you rollback the
delete statements and recover the data from the
transaction logs'Robert wrote:
> I ran some delete statements in Query Analyzer and I
> found out it was the wrong database. Can you rollback the
> delete statements and recover the data from the
> transaction logs'
You'll have to use a log reader tool from Lumigent or LogPi. Otherwise,
you need to restore from a backup. If the table is static, you may be
able to restore the database to another (test) server and use DTS to
copy the table.
Some backup/recovery tools like our LiteSpeed product offer object level
recovery.
David Gugick
Imceda Software
www.imceda.com|||Restore a backup to a temporary database, then copy over the missing
data.
Too late now but it's a good idea to bracket your ad-hoc DML statements
with BEGIN TRAN ... ROLLBACK TRAN until you are sure that the
modification is correct. Also a good idea to have a current backup of
course :-)
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--|||On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:55:14 -0800, Robert wrote:

>I ran some delete statements in Query Analyzer and I
>found out it was the wrong database. Can you rollback the
>delete statements and recover the data from the
>transaction logs'
Hi Robert,
You can't rollback after committing the transaction.
Besides the options posted by David and David, the might be one more
option for you: If your database is in full recovery mode, you can use
point in time recovery to restore yoour database to the point in time just
before you ran the unintended deletes. This will of course destroy ALL
modifications since that time, so it may or may not be usefull.
Best, Hugo
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(Remove _NO_ and _SPAM_ to get my e-mail address)|||Might not add to the posts already posted, but I have an article about this
scenario at
http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/in...veral_times.asp
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
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>I ran some delete statements in Query Analyzer and I
> found out it was the wrong database. Can you rollback the
> delete statements and recover the data from the
> transaction logs'