-
Written By
Tirthankar Bose -
Published on
September 19th, 2018 -
Updated on
October 6, 2020 -
Read Time
5 minutes
Article Summary: With this article, I am going to tell you some of the best techniques through which you can easily restore database in SQL server from .bak file or backup file and can troubleshoot any type of SQL server error.
MS SQL server is one of the majorly used servers in various organizations.
However, even being one of the most advanced and used servers, there are situations when it stops working or start popping up errors on your screen like:
The best way to resolve these types of issues is by rebooting your MS SQL server. Unfortunately, in some cases, it doesn’t work as said and then the only possibility left with you is to restore your SQL database with the help of a backup or commonly known as .bak file.
But before we do the restoration part we have to understand various other things about SQL server, .bak file and the whole restoration part.
Recommended read:
How To Fix SQL Server Page Level Corruption?
How to Troubleshoot and Fix SQL Server Error 823?
How to fix SQL Server database in recovery pending state?
2 Most Common Issues Take Place in SQL Server and Their Fixes
Table of Contents
After you have done with all the above-mentioned recommendations, lets now see how to restore SQL database from .bak file?
By using T-SQL or Transact- SQL, you can easily backup complete SQL server and can restore it later.
Also try to add different Options to backup with Options
Similarly, there are different commands for differential backup, backup with description and backup with compression to restore database SQL server 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
When you start creating a backup task with the help of SQL Server Management Studio or also known as SSMS, you will automatically find an option to generate T-SQL backup by using a script button. You can also select the script destination to complete the process.
And this is how you create a backup with SQL Server Management Studio.
Today downtime in any form in the server may create a havoc and these list of commands is a hard task to implement even for experienced SQL Administrators.
The complete process to restore database in SQL server from .bak file is a lengthy and cumbersome process. A long downtime is inevitable if you are trying to restore the database from the .bak file but with the help of a professional software you can easily repair and restore your database files in no time.
So now the question is
If you take my suggestion, I would refer you to go for SysInfoTools SQL Backup Recovery.
It is a very useful tool as it can easily repair and restore all your files from MDF and NDF databases.
Maintaining SQL database is a hard task and keeping it up and running is altogether a different task. However, maintaining both is not at all easy as there are so many reasons for a downtime.
Sometimes a manual process work and sometimes it doesn’t.
So it totally depends on you to go for a manual process or a professional software.
Manual process is free but complicated and takes time whereas the mentioned software is paid but easy to use and doesn’t take much time to restore SQL database from .bak file.
Hope you liked this article.
Related Post