Powerful database recovery utilities to recover data from even severely damaged SQL Server databases

SQL Server has given database users some remarkable facilities in the form of encrypting the entire database, data access monitoring and data compression. But, in spite of its strong internal architecture, there are occasions, when the SQL database gets corrupt and all your important data in it becomes inaccessible. Such situations are not uncommon and you can encounter, even with high level of data safety measures. Still, there are many innovative SQL recovery utilities available in the market, which promise recovery of your seemingly lost or inaccessible data from the corrupt SQL Server database.

Why SQL Server is used in numerous financial institutions, banks and other industries need no explanation, as its essence of its reliability lies in its brand itself. SQL Server is a relational database application developed by Microsoft and not only because it is a Microsoft product, but for its advanced as well as useful features, the application is used as a back-end in many business applications.

But, there are few occasions, when the database behaves abruptly and you fail to access the required SQL tables. In such a condition, if you are working on a SQL Server 2000 database, one of the error messages that you may receive can be as below:

"Table error: Object ID O_ID, index ID I_ID, page P_ID. Test (TEST) failed. Slot S_ID, row extends into free space at 0xADDRESS."

Cause: The above error message contains some purely technical information, which refers to the fact that the slot S_ID row has attained a size that is equal to the maximum offset value set for the same. At times, after encountering such an error message, you may fail to access almost all records in your SQL database.

Resolution: There are few generalized recovery solutions to resolve the problem. Follow the below steps before opting for any other alternative:

• Run hardware diagnostic and solve the issues, as many times the above problem is caused due to any hardware related issue.

• If the above process does not give any positive result and the data base is still inaccessible, run the 'DBCC CHECKDB' command on the troubled database. This command is meant to repair minor corruptions in the SQL database, if there is any.

However, even after performing the above operations the database remains inaccessible, you need to look for any recently updated valid backup and restore the database. In case, no valid backup is available, you can take the help of any reliable SQL database recovery software to do the job.

These database recovery software are developed with powerful programs, which locate the problem in the damaged database and recover the data from them by resolving the problem. These utilities are so useful that even when the database has been severely damaged and there is not any possibility of recovery, you can still recover the queries of objects in a text file, which is also of great help.