If you do not have a full backup to start the restore process with there is no way to recover the database. Once the database is deleted it is deleted. If you have an older full backup and the transaction log backups then you can restore the full backup, then apply the transaction log backups to it. However this requires that you have all the transaction log backups from the time the full backup was taken until now. If any backups are missing or damaged then you can not go any further forward than that. ***************************************************************** well you can do it with a backup and transaction logs but there are other ways. There is quite a lot that can be done to recover deleted SQL databases. I'll assume you are using something like Windows server and hence an NTFS file system, if that’s the case doing a scan of the file system for deleted files is quite easy. Once a file is deleted in NTFS the record in the file system and the actual area the data takes up is considered unallocated, so the more files you write to the volume after its deleted the greater the chance the data and its file system record will be overwritten. If the files record is still there you can copy out the data but the database still might have been overwritten so will need to be checked for errors. If there is no longer a file record for the database the only other option is to scan the data area for the SQL information. At a low level SQL data is stored in pages and it’s possible to scan for these and put the database back together. It’s obviously not a easy thing to do but Kroll Ontrack has developed software which can do it, they can even login remotely and perform these types of recovery on your own server. http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk <a href="http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/">

If you do not have a full backup to start the restore process with there is no way to recover the database. Once the database is deleted it is deleted. If you have an older full backup and the transaction log backups then you can restore the full backup, then apply the transaction log backups to it. However this requires that you have all the transaction log backups from the time the full backup was taken until now. If any backups are missing or damaged then you can not go any further forward than that. ***************************************************************** well you can do it with a backup and transaction logs but there are other ways. There is quite a lot that can be done to recover deleted SQL databases. I'll assume you are using something like Windows server and hence an NTFS file system, if that’s the case doing a scan of the file system for deleted files is quite easy. Once a file is deleted in NTFS the record in the file system and the actual area the data takes up is considered unallocated, so the more files you write to the volume after its deleted the greater the chance the data and its file system record will be overwritten. If the files record is still there you can copy out the data but the database still might have been overwritten so will need to be checked for errors. If there is no longer a file record for the database the only other option is to scan the data area for the SQL information. At a low level SQL data is stored in pages and it’s possible to scan for these and put the database back together. It’s obviously not a easy thing to do but Kroll Ontrack has developed software which can do it, they can even login remotely and perform these types of recovery on your own server. http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk <a href="http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/">