Master Database Corruption Of Sql

The installation of MS SQL Server is composed of several databases, each which hold its own relevance. Master database, Model database, TEMPDB, these are few of them. But the most important one is Master database.

The Master database is the one which is responsible for carrying information like login accounts, the pointers to the other databases and so on. This comprises of the system catalogs to maintain the data like disk space, system wide configuration settings, other database existence information, file allocations and other similar and so is the most relevant part of the SQL Server installation. Without this database, the starting up of the server is practically impossible. The file extension of this file is MDF.


In few of the cases for the users, specially the SQL Server administrators, this becomes hard to resist that the master database is corrupt. The improper backup of the same add to the grief of the user and create the need of SQL recovery. There are number of reasons for the database corruption like virus attack etc. and strangely, some of the reports also state that the bulk use of DELETE from a table makes it corrupt

If the master database is corrupt, then surely others also do have the problems and thus the need of MDF recovery comes to an immediate. However you can try out to rebuild it with rebuild.exe and restore it.

But, if in any case, this procedure doesn’t work properly, then you can switch on the third party MDF Repair software. Also in complete success scene of rebuilding the master database, the other databases may be lying in the corrupted state for which again these SQL recovery software are needed.

These software have the wonderful ability to run the scanning mechanism to repair and restore the MDF file. They can benefit you with complete MDF recovery in each and every instance of corruption with the intuitive user interface.

You can have safe SQL recovery with their read-only nature. These MDF recovery utilities are applicable for all the objects of database.

Stellar Phoenix SQL Database Recovery is the standout key term for having safe and complete MDF repair. The software uses the powerful scanning algorithms to give the stupendous results. This SQL repair software creates the script files after repair and the data can easily be restored.

With the interactive user interface, this SQL recovery tool eases the users. You can use it for SQL Server 2000.

By: Andrew Watson

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Mark Robin a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for www.stellarinfo.com

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