Am I correct?

I read the message with the subject "Can I recover?". It states that the
user only has a copy of the database backup in February and he executed an
update statement without a where clause. He wants to know if it can be
recovered...
From what I know, if the February backup was a Full backup and if the
database recovery mode has been setup in "Full", he should be able to backup
the current Transaction Log and do a "point in time restore" to restore data
back before he executed an update statement. Am I correct? I did test it s
o
many times for the "point in time" long time ago... and the point in time
could be used anytime in between "Full Backup"/Diff. Backup and a Transactio
n
Log backup.
I could be so suprise if I am wrong... I don't want to be shame on myseft
since I am a DBA for a fortunate 500 company...
Ed>Am I correct?
Yep.
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Ed" <Ed@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I read the message with the subject "Can I recover?". It states that the
> user only has a copy of the database backup in February and he executed an
> update statement without a where clause. He wants to know if it can be
> recovered...
> From what I know, if the February backup was a Full backup and if the
> database recovery mode has been setup in "Full", he should be able to
> backup
> the current Transaction Log and do a "point in time restore" to restore
> data
> back before he executed an update statement. Am I correct? I did test it
> so
> many times for the "point in time" long time ago... and the point in time
> could be used anytime in between "Full Backup"/Diff. Backup and a
> Transaction
> Log backup.
> I could be so suprise if I am wrong... I don't want to be shame on myseft
> since I am a DBA for a fortunate 500 company...
> Ed