Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/29/06 22:56

laststubborn (arafatsalih@gmail.com) writes:
> One of our employee made a mistake and deleted something from database.
> I would like to recover that log file without restoring the backup and
> the other log files. The reason I want to do this is our database is
> getting real time information I cannot shut down the database. Is there
> any way to do this please let me know and help me .

You can acquire a log-reader tool like Red Gate's SQL Log Rescue or
Lumigent's Log Explorer. Red Gate appears to have a trial version, so
you could download and get rolling quickly.

Ed's suggestion of backing up the transaction log and restoring the database
elsewhere is also a good approach, if you have the disk space.


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