Several times when you try to access your SQL Server database, it goes to Suspect Mode. In such cases, there is no way to resolve the problem and the only way, you have to overcome this problem, is to restore it from recent backup. If you don’t have recent backup, you may experience the nightmare of data loss.
An SQL Server database can become suspect due to a number of reasons. Possible reasons include denial of access to the database resources by operating system, and the unavailability or corruption of one or more SQL database files.
To resolve the suspect mode problem, you can use sp_resetstatus command. It turns off suspect flag of the database. It updates the mode and status columns of named database in sysdatabases. You should check the SQL Server error log before using this command. After executing it, stop and restart SQL Server for completing the process.
Though, sp_resetstatus works in most of the cases and resolve the suspect mode problem. But unluckily, sometimes when you attempt it on a database, it may refuse to run and throw the following error message:
“Prior to updating sysdatabases entry for database ‘database name’, mode = 0 and status = 272 (status suspect_bit = 256).
For row in sysdatabases for database ‘ database name’, the status bit 256 was forced off and mode was forced to 0.
Warning: You must recover this database prior to access.”
After this error message, the database remains in the suspect mode and you can’t access anything from it. It is the worst case scenario which a database administrator could face.
In such situations, you need to repair the damaged database prior to use. The MDF repair is possible with the application of powerful third party applications known as SQL recovery software.
SQL recovery software are very easy to use tools which allow you to have perfect MDF recovery in all cases of corruption. SQL repair software perform systematic scan of entire database and extract all of the data from it.
The most important thing, at this point of time, is to select powerful and effective SQL recovery software. The software should be capable of handling all corruption issues and retrieving all the database objects.
Stellar Phoenix SQL Database Recovery is the most influential and robust SQL repair software which is able to repair and restore MDF file in all cases of corruption. Using this SQL recovery software, you can retrieve all of the database objects including tables, reports, forms, macros, database constraints, stored procedures, triggers and so on.
This MDF recovery software comes equipped with interactive user interface and allows you to have easy SQL recovery. To know more about the working and features of this MDF repair software, you can go for its free demo version, available on Stellar’s website.