Re: Data Loss?

From: Simon Shearn (simon_at_antispam.aardvarks)
Date: 12/07/04


Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:16:22 -0000


"Dan B" <none@none.com> wrote in message
news:u038qvI3EHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I'm sure this is a very broad question, but what could cause roughly
> 125,000 rows in one table to disappear over night. I'm running SQL server
> 7. I've done multiple virus scans....all clean....although mydoom was
> previously found and quarantined.
>
> Could someone give me at least a starting point on troubleshooting this.
> The same thing happened to the same table about 3 months ago. At that
time,
> I figured it was some strange fluke, but now that it has happened again,
it
> is rather disconcerting.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!!
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
Perhaps you could add a trigger to the table that would write diagnostic
information to a logging table, such as time-of-deletion and possibly
information about the user that the deletion SQL was running as.

Regards,

Simon



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