Reliable mdf repair utility for risk-free recovery of your SQL server database

If you are using a Microsoft SQL database for storing your valuable business transactions and financial information, then, any instance of database corruption can be a huge blow to your business. The damage to the database can result in the complete inaccessibility of the data stored n it. In such cases, you can run ‘DBCC CHECKDB’ from the command-line, which can repair and fix the MS SQL database errors. If with higher degree of corruption, the database DBCC CHECKDB fails to resolve the problem, you can always run an reliable SQL repair utility to accomplish the job safely.

Following are some of the error messages, which you may encounter, while trying to fix them with DBCC CHECKDB command:

“Server: Msg 8905, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Extent (1:6945928) in database ID 8 is marked allocated in the GAM, but no SGAM or IAM has allocated it.
Server: Msg 8905, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Extent (1:6945936) in database ID 8 is marked allocated in the GAM, but no SGAM or IAM has allocated it.
Server: Msg 8905, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Extent (1:6945944) in database ID 8 is marked allocated in the GAM, but no SGAM or IAM has allocated it.

The command fails to resolve the issues and further flashes the below messages:

Repairing this error requires other errors to be corrected first.
Repairing this error requires other errors to be corrected first.
Repairing this error requires other errors to be corrected first.
Repairing this error requires other errors to be corrected first.”

Cause:
The MS SQL Server database has been severely damaged and DBCC CHECKDB is unable to repair the same.

The best possible way to get the database and the data back is to restore it from a valid backup. If you have not taken any backup recently or there are any unresolved problem in restoring it from the backup server, then, you have to look for any good mdf repair utility.

These SQL recovery software are meant to repair the corrupt SQL database and recover the tables, schema, triggers, containers etc with their originality being intact.

Stellar Phoenix SQL Recovery is a trusted utility to safely repair SQL database and recover your data without any alteration to the database. This efficient utility is capable of repairing the MS SQL Server 2008, 20005, 2000 databases and is completely compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2008, XP, 2003 and 2000 operating systems.

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Use Advanced SQL Recovery Tool to Repair MDF Files

If you are regularly using Microsoft SQL 2008, then you might have faced several situations wherein you are unable to mount a SQL Server database. Such cases are sometimes cause very serious problem such as database corruption or complete inaccessibility of the SQL database thereby making your database very insecure. These corruption scenarios can arise due to various reasons such as automatic system shutdown when the database is running, power failure, virus infections, hardware issues, human errors etc. In such cases, you should find the cause of database corruption and try to repair SQL. If you are unable to repair SQL(.MDF) file, then you should use an advanced MDF file repair software to perform SQL database recovery.

Consider a Practical scenario wherein you try to open a SQL database while using MS SQL Server 2008. However, database does not open. An error message appear as a result, which is:

"Database '%.*ls' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server error log for details."

Cause:

The root cause of above error message is that the database could not be mounted because some resources or files are missing.

Resolution:

To resolve above error message, you should repair MDF file. To do this, you need to perform the given below methods:

Check Error log: Firstly, You should check error log to get the details about resources such as disk space, memory, permission failure, etc that may have caused the above problem.

Confirm the location of SQL Database files: You should check the location of MDF or LDF files and verify whether Database Engine account has required credentials to access these SQL Database files.

Restart Database: Finally, you should restart the SQL Server database with the help of ALTER DATABASE query. This query sets the SQL Server database to online.

Above described methods should be able to set the SQL database up. However, if you still are unable to mount the database then you should use a SQL repair tool to repair SQL Server database. Such MDF database repair software are read-only in nature.

Stellar Phoenix SQL Database Recovery software is an SQL database repair tool that repairs MDF file and NDF file alike. Specifically designed for MSSQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 7.0. This MDF file repair tool restores various database objects such as collations, tables, stored procedures, triggers, defaults and many more. In addition, this repair mdf software preserves the relationship among the database tables.

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