SQL Server Backup and Restore - Simple Talk

Chapter 9: File and Filegroup Backup and Restore
Performing a complete restore (native T-SQL)
We're going to take a look at an example of performing a complete restore of our
DatabaseForFileBackups database. Before we start, let's insert a third data load, as
shown in Listing 9-17, just so we have one row in each of the tables in the database that
isn't yet captured in any of our backup files.
USE [DatabaseForFileBackups]
GO
INSERT INTO Table_DF1
VALUES ( 'This is the third data load for the table' )
INSERT INTO Table_DF2
VALUES ( 'This is the third data load for the table' )
GO
Listing 9-17: Third data load for DatabaseForFileBackups.
Figure 9-5 depicts the current backups we have in place. We have the first data load
captured in full file backups, the second data load captured in the differential file backups,
and a third data load that is not in any current backup file, but we'll need to capture it in
a tail log backup in order to restore the database to its current state. In a case where we
were unable to take a final tail log backup we'd only be able to roll forward to the end of
the TLOG2 backup. In this example, we are going to take one last backup, just to get our
complete database back intact.
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