Re: HELP! Lost my server!

Jeff Tuttle ( (no email) )
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 21:13:46 -0500

We usually bu Emerald, Master & MSDB db's. The pubs and tempdb are just
samples.

jeff

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> From: John Lange <radadmin@palacenet.net>
> To: emerald@emerald.iea.com
> Subject: Re: HELP! Lost my server!
> Date: Friday, July 25, 1997 6:34 PM
>
> HI
>
> I know this is to late, but there is a wizard with SQL 6.5 that will set
up
> a nightly db check & backup data dump. Set this up for both the Emerald
db
> & the Master. It saved me twice.
>
> JOhn :}
>
> > From: Will LaSala <will@greennet.net>
> > To: emerald@emerald.iea.com
> > Subject: Re: HELP! Lost my server!
> > Date: Friday, July 25, 1997 4:15 PM
> >
> > Nope the Master Database is definitely not there!
> > I'm actually to the point where I must rebuild the master DB
> > ICK!!
> > Thanks Will
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Hillman <admin-maillist@talstar.com>
> > To: emerald@emerald.iea.com <emerald@emerald.iea.com>
> > Date: Friday, July 25, 1997 5:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: HELP! Lost my server!
> >
> >
> >
> > >> From: Will LaSala <will@greennet.net>
> > >> I just upgraded to Radius 2.2 and all of the sudden
> > >> SQL decided that it was going to delete the Master
> > >> Database! Well that means that all my other databases are no longer
> > >> available.
> > >> Well that means the Emerald Database with all my customers
information
> > >> is gone. I checked the Hard Drive and found that the files
> > >> Emerald.Dat and EmeraldLog.Dat are still there so all is not lost!
> > >> I just have no clue on how to make SQL Server see those DAT files
> again.
> > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > >This is going to sound a little strange, but are you sure it wasn't a
> > >problem with too many logins into the db? I only ask because that
> happened
> > >to me this morning--it said there were 15 logins and the only thing
> > >accessing the db at the time was Radius! I had to stop Radius and
> > >MSSQLServer, then restart them before I was able to get back into
> Emerald,
> > >ISQL/w. The weird thing thing was that our web-based IDC script was
> > >pulling information on current callers as if there was nothing wrong.
> > >Strange.
> > >
> > >Josh Hillman
> > >hillman@talstar.com
> >
>
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