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Bradley BeardBeginning Backup and Restore for SQL Serverhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3456-3_7

7. Transaction Log Restores

Bradley Beard1 
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Palm Bay, Florida, USA
 
Restoring a transaction log in SQL Server can be surprisingly painless. There are a few things to consider before you attempt to restore your transaction log though, such as the following:
  • Do you need to restore to a specific point in time?

  • Are you attempting to recover from a catastrophic database failure?

  • Do you even have transaction logs to restore?

These questions, and sometimes many more, need to be addressed in order to lead you down the correct path of transaction log restoration. There have been lots of times that I was alerted to an incident within one of ...

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