You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Length 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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Using database and log restore

The restore feature in SQL Server is used for data recovery in case of corruption and heavily relies on how data is backed up. In this section, we will cover the following topics:

Preparation steps before the restore process starts
Restore scenarios, depending on backup strategies

We'll start with the preparation steps first.

Preparing for restore

Before a database is restored, we must decide on the type of corruption and which backup sets are already available for restore. If we have more backups to be restored (a full backup combined with other backup types), we need to handle the recovery process as well.

The recovery process was described in the Transaction log section but let's recall the recovery process one more time. SQL Server uses write-ahead logging (WAL) for very detailed transaction actions. These transaction log records are written before the action is...