Posts Tagged ‘MDF Repair’

Fix Fatal Error of MS SQL Database using ‘MDF Repair’

Monday, March 8th, 2010

MS SQL Server table mainly gets corrupted when the metadata structure of the database gets damaged. Some major causes of this corruption are application malfunctioning, improper shutdown of database and system, execution of arbitrary code due to virus attacks etc. Due to this the data stored in the database becomes inaccessible. To make the database accessible restoration is needed from the valid backup and if the backup is not available then to repair the MDF file of MS SQL MDF Repair software is needed which scan comprehensibly repair the table and its record and allows the data accessibility.

When the SQL Server file gets corrupted following error message will be displayed –

Table error: Object ID O_ID, index ID I_ID, column ‘COLUMN’. The column ID COL_ID is not valid for this table.

The valid range is from 1 to MAX_COL_ID. ” This message will be flashed every time when any attempt of accessing server table file will be done and indicates that metadata structure is corrupted. To resolve this issue use MDF Repair software which efficiently repairs the MDF files by its sophisticated algorithm and makes the database accessible within seconds.

MDF Header File corruption and MDF Repair

Monday, January 4th, 2010

mdf repairThe header is usually the collection of relevant information. MDF Header file corruption is usually identified if the file is inaccessible. MDF is the prime storage of SQL server and any corruption in this file cause serious problem and it is tough to recover data for the database administrator. The problem is due to various reasons like virus attack and application fault. You get following massage in the situation of header corruption:

“The file header is corrupted and not a valid database file” or Msg 5172, Level 16, State 15, Line 1

The error generally pops up when user try to attach the MDF file to SQL server. And in order to get rid of above situation you need to attach file with some different ways, instead directly. Firstly create a similar database and then exchange the corrupted files after switching down the SQL service. Now try to extract all the valuable information for database by putting it into the emergency mode.

If the above method is not helpful then try MDF Repair or MDF Recovery tool. It would be very helpful in the process of recovery of files. MDF Repair software is powerful recovery tool that provides you full scan the corrupted database with sophisticated algorithms.

The software recovers MDF files from all the following error massages easily:

  • Table handler giving error
  • Database is corrupt
  • Database corruption error
  • Cannot locate the database
  • Cannot open the desired database
  • Table error
  • File has crashed

Hence, you must not worry about recovery of MDF damaged file.

The system cannot self repair this error

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Are you getting an error message like “The system cannot self repair this error” because of the SQL database corruption. Then in that case you have to restore from the backups. And if you don’t have any backup then in that case you have to use the mdf repair tools that make use of the repair algorithms to fix the corruption of the SQL database.

mdf repairThis message shows that the SQL server is getting an error which can’t be repaired by the check code. Such types of the errors are –

•    Corruption of the PFS pages
•    Metadata corruption

You can follow the steps to solve these errors with SQL database
•    You can make a check to ensure that all the system files are in healthy mode or not. If they are not then you have to do the reinstall your system.
•    You can restore your database from your current backup
•    If there is not any backup then you can run the DBCC with the repair option. However it may lead to the data loss because the process will delete the corrupted files.
•    For the safe mdf recovery you can use the third party utilities of the SQL recovery.

Mdf repair is the appropriate tool which can scan and then repair your damaged SQL databases. It supports safe and powerful scanning algorithms for the effective recovery.