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Chapter 9: File and Filegroup Backup and Restore
The next step is to restore the second transaction log backup (_TLOG2), as shown in
Listing 9-21. When it comes to restoring the transaction log backup files, we need to
specify NORECOVERY on all of them except the last. The last group of log backup files
we are restoring (represented by only a single log backup in this example!) may be
processing data for all of the data files and, if we do not specify NORECOVERY, we can
end up putting the database in a usable state for the user, but unable to apply the last
of the log backup files.
USE master
GO
RESTORE DATABASE [DatabaseForFileBackups]
FROM DISK = N'C:\SQLBackups\Chapter9\DatabaseForFileBackups_TLOG2.trn'
WITH NORECOVERY
GO
Listing 9-21: Restore the second log backup.
Finally, we need to apply the tail log backup, where we know our third data load is
captured, and recover the database.
RESTORE DATABASE [DatabaseForFileBackups]
FROM DISK = N'C:\SQLBackups\Chapter9\DatabaseForFileBackups_TLOG_TAIL.trn'
WITH RECOVERY
GO
Listing 9-22: Restore the tail log backup and recover the database.
A simple query of the restored database will confirm that we've restored the database,
with all the rows intact.
USE [DatabaseForFileBackups]
GO
SELECT * FROM Table_DF1
SELECT * FROM Table_DF2
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