Use Advanced SQL Recovery Tool to Repair MDF Files

If you are regularly using Microsoft SQL 2008, then you might have faced several situations wherein you are unable to mount a SQL Server database. Such cases are sometimes cause very serious problem such as database corruption or complete inaccessibility of the SQL database thereby making your database very insecure. These corruption scenarios can arise due to various reasons such as automatic system shutdown when the database is running, power failure, virus infections, hardware issues, human errors etc. In such cases, you should find the cause of database corruption and try to repair SQL. If you are unable to repair SQL(.MDF) file, then you should use an advanced MDF file repair software to perform SQL database recovery.

Consider a Practical scenario wherein you try to open a SQL database while using MS SQL Server 2008. However, database does not open. An error message appear as a result, which is:

"Database '%.ls' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server error log for details."

Cause:

The root cause of above error message is that the database could not be mounted because some resources or files are missing.

Resolution:

To resolve above error message, you should repair MDF file. To do this, you need to perform the given below methods:

Check Error log: Firstly, You should check error log to get the details about resources such as disk space, memory, permission failure, etc that may have caused the above problem.

Confirm the location of SQL Database files: You should check the location of MDF or LDF files and verify whether Database Engine account has required credentials to access these SQL Database files.

Restart Database: Finally, you should restart the SQL Server database with the help of ALTER DATABASE query. This query sets the SQL Server database to online.

Above described methods should be able to set the SQL database up. However, if you still are unable to mount the database then you should use a SQL repair tool to repair SQL Server database. Such MDF database repair software are read-only in nature.

Stellar Phoenix SQL Database Recovery software is an SQL database repair tool that repairs MDF file and NDF file alike. Specifically designed for MSSQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 7.0. This MDF file repair tool restores various database objects such as collations, tables, stored procedures, triggers, defaults and many more. In addition, this repair mdf software preserves the relationship among the database tables.