How to "undo" a delete with cascades

Hello,

Somebody accidently deleted a record with cascade deletes
and took out about 80 records.

The database has been used heavily since then.

How do I put back the data?

I have spent hours researching BOL and all I can find
is how to restore the database to a point in time.

But that will lose all the work done after the mistake.

(We do a full backup every week and log backup every day)

Is there a standard way to do this?

Morgan

Hello, Morgan

Restore the backup on another server (or as another database on the
same server) and then copy the missing rows (using a query that
accesses the linked server).

Razvan

(dsfsdfs878@tiscali.co.uk)  writes:
> Somebody accidently deleted a record with cascade deletes
> and took out about 80 records.
>
> The database has been used heavily since then.
>
> How do I put back the data?
>
> I have spent hours researching BOL and all I can find
> is how to restore the database to a point in time.
>
> But that will lose all the work done after the mistake.
>
> (We do a full backup every week and log backup every day)
>
> Is there a standard way to do this?

Yes, if you have bought one of those log-viewer tools, that offers
this function (by reading the transaction log, and from that generates
a script.) Check out http://www.lumigent.com and http://www.logpi.com
for two offerings.


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