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GUI-based point-in-time restore
Chapter 6: Log Restores
It's entirely possible to perform point-in-time restores via the GUI. On the Restore Database page, we
simply need to configure a specific date and time, in the To a point in time: option, rather than accept
the default setting of most recent possible. We don't provide a full worked example in the GUI, but feel
free to play around with configuring and executing these types of restore in the GUI environment.
Don't worry; point-in-time restores are not as complicated as they may sound! To prove
it, let's jump right into the script in Listing 6-3.
The overall intent of this script is to restore the DatabaseForLogBackup full backup
file over the top of the DatabaseForLogBackup_RestoreCopy database, created in
the previous GUI restore, apply the entire contents of the first log backup, and then the
contents of the second log backup, up to the point just before we inserted 100,000 rows
into MessageTable3.
USE [master]
GO
--STEP 1: Restore the full backup. Leave database in restoring state
RESTORE DATABASE [DatabaseForLogBackups_RestoreCopy]
FROM DISK = N'C:\SQLBackups\Chapter5\DatabaseForLogBackups_Native_Full.bak'
WITH FILE = 1, MOVE N'DatabaseForLogBackups' TO N'C:\SQLData\
DatabaseForLogBackups_RestoreCopy.mdf',
MOVE N'DatabaseForLogBackups_log' TO N'C:\SQLData\DatabaseForLogBackups_
RestoreCopy_1.ldf',
NORECOVERY, STATS = 10
GO
--STEP 2: Completely restore 1st log backup. Leave database in restoring state
RESTORE LOG [DatabaseForLogBackups_RestoreCopy]
FROM DISK = N'C:\SQLBackups\Chapter5\DatabaseForLogBackups_Native_Log.trn'
WITH FILE = 1, NORECOVERY, STATS = 10
GO
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