Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 08/18/06 07:15

Mark D Powell (Mark.Powell@eds.com) writes:
> In the event of serious problems I will drop the database, recreate it,
> restore using the backup over the new version, and fix the user access.

You don't have to create the database prior to restoring it. RESTORE will
do that for you.

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