Re: Mystery Table Delete!

From: Wayne Snyder (wayne.nospam.snyder_at_mariner-usa.com)
Date: 06/25/04


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:16:13 -0400

Probably the best way to see might be to get the tool from Lumigent (
www.lumigent.com)...

Give them a call and see if the tool will help in your situation.

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Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
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"Pegasus" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:212c301c45a9e$73c9e3c0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm hoping someone out there can help me solve a mystery!
>
> 29 tables in our live database were deleted the other day
> and we've no real idea how this could have happened.
>
> We have found an entry in Application Event Viewer that
> happened at about the same time as the tables vanished,
> but we don't really understand what it means:
> EventID: 17055
> Categorey: (6)
> Description: 3041: BACKUP failed to complete the command
> dump tran [Claims] with no_log
>
> I understand that this is saying that the command failed,
> but where did the command come from?   The user on the
> event was creating new tables and replacing stored
> procedures in the database at the time, however, [Claims]
> is the name of the whole database!
>
> We have recovered from the disaster now but really do need
> to understand what has happened here, how it happened, and
> how we can ensure it never happens again in the future.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Regards
>
> Paula


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