SQL Server Database Corruption on Virtual Hard Disk

                                                                                         

A VHD or Virtual Hard Disk is a file format, which contains the complete data and structure representing the hard drive. It is used for storing virtual operating system and the associated programs in a single file by virtual machine or several virtualization programs. Virtual hard disk allows you to have numerous operating systems residing on a single machine. It enables the developers to test applications on various operating systems without paying for extra hardware. This method is generally used with large applications like SQL Server. Using VHD in SQL Server, you can continuously alter the structure of the database. It is very helpful for the SQL Server programs and offers a better dynamic environment for database management and application development. Under some situations, the database administrators or users made a mistake of attempting to copy the VHD file. It leads the VHD to be damaged. In such situations, everything stored on the Virtual Hard Drive becomes inaccessible and you may encounter the serious problems of data loss. In such circumstances, when you attach the VHD file to another virtual machine and apply CHK get the damaged VHD file again in working state, you may fail to do it. The database does not mount and you can not access your MDF file. Here you need to repair and restore the MDF file to extract the data from it. Due to corruption, the database can not execute any of the queries and thus does not allow you to access the data. In the worst case, when the database fails to mount, there is no chance of manual MDF recovery. In this case, the only way to extract data from damaged SQL database is to useSQL Recovery software. SQL recovery software are the third party applications, specially designed r and restore the MDF file in all possible situations of corruption. MDF recovery software are generally very easy to use and are able to perform complete scan of your damaged database. There are several data recovery companies available in the market, which offer you the SQL repair software, but selecting powerful MDF repair software of trusted brand would be the best bet. Stellar Phoenix SQL Database Recovery is the best ever made and the most influential SQL recovery software. This robust SQL repair software is able to recover all of the MDF objects including tables, reports, forms, macros, dat straints, indexes, triggers, stored procedures, defaults and many alike. With intuitive and cool looking user interface, this MDF recovery software is very easy to use and even a novice user can perform efficient MDF repair using this. This SQL repair software accomplishes a methodical scan of the corrupted SQL Server database to end up at absolute MDF recovery. Phoenix MDF Repair software is usable with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005.

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Andrew Watson is a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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