Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion
by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia, Burzin Patel, Stacia Misner, Victor Isakov
Restoring Data from Backups
You may need to restore data for various reasons. The most critical reason is to restore lost data, which may be a factor in the success or failure of a business. Here are some common scenarios in which you may restore data:
To restore data lost or corrupted because of a system failure
To restore a database onto a development system for use by application developers while developing and testing new code
To restore a database onto a test system to load test your applications or to test the use of certain database features in a controlled environment
To restore a database onto a separate server as a read-only database that can be accessed by users to perform queries, such as for reports.
There are several ways to restore data, ...
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