Re: Transaction log

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From: Bryan (Juniper2000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/16/04


Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 04:43:49 GMT

If you are asking if you can restore a database from using only transaction
logs, the answer is no. You need the last database backup and sequential
transactions to restore to a specific point in time. Transaction logs are
applied to a physical database schema. To restore fro logs only is like
saying "DELETE FROM Customers" (This being a transaction) when the Customers
table does not exist, or anything else (including the database object
itself) for that matter.

-- 
Bryan Bitzer MCP
Senior Database Administrator
Marshall & Swift / Boeckh
www.msbinfo.com
"Just D." <no@spam.please> wrote in message
news:HI82d.40566$9Y5.22419@fed1read02...
> Can we restore the MSSQL Server 2000 database from the transaction log?
>
> Just D.
>
>


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