[dba-SQLServer]Help - get db back

John W. Colby jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Nov 13 09:27:58 CST 2003


Folks,

I had a hard disk decide to disappear occasionally.  Yep, a soft reboot
would show it completely missing, only a hard boot (power off/on) would
display it again.  Of course it was my system disk.  In the two days of
screwing around finding and fixing it, I forgot to back up my SQL Server
database.  It appears that I was connected to a database out on my data
disk, and I didn't lose it, but the question is, how do I "attach to" that
SQL Server database?  It's my billing database and rather critical.

Again, I have the database itself, but it is out in my data directory and I
need to get SQL Server to open it and let me use it.

Possible?

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com




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