Database Crash

Hi All,
What are the steps of recovering SQL Server 2000 database after it crashes?
Is it documented somewhere?Depends on the crash. If the server was simply powered down, you can usually just power it on. If SQL Server will not start, then you have to go to the errorlog to see why. If a database will not recover....|||Let's say the database was accidentally deleted.|||Let's say the database was accidentally deleted.

Hope you have a backup...

You can...

...lookup up RESTORE in SQL BOL

...from enterprise manager, right click on the databases node, select all tasks and then 'Restore Database' (this assumes you had a backup to restore)

Regards,

hmscott|||Can we say there is a backup? Hypothetically, of course.|||these are my favorite posts. i can alsmost here the guy quivering and smell him sweating. I have only had one professional moment where I thought I lost everything. I thought I was going to die right there. But I put it back together.|||What about the database server loss? What are the steps then?|||Care to tell us what the hell is actually going on, or is it fun to watch us speculate?|||update resume
set experience = experience + ' Practiced disaster recovery'
where recent_job = (select max(recent_job) from resume)

As I said before, it depends on the crash. Still, the first step is going to be inventory. List out what you have (servers, backups, working software, etc.)|||could this be homework?|||No it is not a homework and no it is not fun to watch you speculate. I need to document the steps on how to recover from the database server loss. All I need for you is to tell me if there is a documentation that would help with this. That's all.|||inka,

Let's go back to your original question:
Hi All,

What are the steps of recovering SQL Server 2000 database after it crashes?
Is it documented somewhere?

That's not very much information to go on. What kind of crash? Where to begin depends on what has gone wrong. If you look up at the stickies, somewhere in one of them it will say something like, "the quality of the answer which you receive will depend greatly on the quality of the information that you provide."

In short, you have provided almost nothing.

Use google, it's your friend. You can find tons of information on recovery procedures (not all of it is right, but a lot of it is very good). You can buy a book (I like SAM's DBA survival guide). Read SQL BOL. Search some more. Set up a test instance and practice recovery on your own. There are lots of things that you can do to be better informed.

Don't get mad. Just do your homework before asking others to do it for you.

Regards,

hmscott|||Disaster recovery is a big subject. You can start by reading BOL.

Contents -->Administering SQL Server-->Backing up and Restoring Databases.

Once you have backups you should move them to tape and then you need to move your tapes offsite and there are company's that specialize in this.

Maybe you want Failove Clustering as well. Log shipping or even replication to attain maximum up time.|||Thank you.