SQL Server Restore Tips

Great resources for SQL Server DBAs learning about SQL Server Restore with these valuable tips, tutorials, how-to's, scripts, and more.

SubCategory	Title	Author
Administration	How to migrate a SQL Server database to a lower version	Basit Farooq
Administration	How to Restart an Interrupted SQL Server Database Restore	Ashish Kumar Mehta
Automation	Automating a SQL Server Database Refresh	Joe Gavin
Automation	How to Automate SQL Server Restores for a Test Server	K. Brian Kelley
Automation	SQL Server Database RESTORE WITH MOVE or not WITH MOVE	Mike Eastland
Calculations	Script to find out when SQL Server recovery will finish	Garrett Ellison
Corruption	How to Perform an Online Page Level Restore in SQL Server	Simon Liew
Database	Automate Database Restore for SQL Server	Joe Gavin
Database	Getting exclusive access to restore SQL Server database	Greg Robidoux
Database	Restore TDE Enabled Azure SQL DB to On-Premises Server	Mohammed Moinudheen
Database	SQL Server Backup Size vs Database Size Script	Alejandro Cobar
Features	View Contents of SQL Server Backup Files with RESTORE LABELONLY, HEADERONLY and FILELISTONLY	Kenneth Igiri
Monitoring	Identify when a SQL Server database was restored, the source and backup date	Thomas LaRock
Monitoring	SQL Server Database Restore Verification Script	Jeremy Kadlec
Monitoring	When was the last time your SQL Server database was restored	Thomas LaRock
Overview	SQL Server Database Stuck in Restoring State	Daniel Calbimonte
Overview	SQL Server Restore Database Options and Examples	Joe Gavin
Performance	Optimize SQL Server Database Restore Performance	Bhavesh Patel
Performance	Restore a SQL Server Database to a New Database to Minimize Downtime	Jeremy Kadlec
Point In Time	Different Ways to Restore a SQL Server Database	Simon Liew
Point In Time	Point in Time Recovery Using New Timeline Feature in SQL Server 2012	Ashish Kumar Mehta
Point In Time	SQL Server point in time recovery	Greg Robidoux
Point In Time	Table level recovery for selected SQL Server tables	Tibor Nagy
Point In Time	Time Testing SQL Azure Point In Time Database Restores	Tim Smith
Processes	Solve Common SQL Server Restore Issues	Sergey Gigoyan
Scripts	Auto generate SQL Server database restore scripts	Greg Robidoux
Scripts	Auto generate SQL Server restore script from backup files in a directory	Greg Robidoux
Scripts	Auto generate SQL Server restore scripts after each backup completes	Ken Simmons
Scripts	Automate a Database Restore	Chad Boyd
Scripts	Simple Procedure to Make a Copy of a SQL Server Database	Eli Leiba
Security	SQL Server Database Restores Mapping Users to Logins	Greg Robidoux
Snapshots	How to revert a Database Snapshot to recover a SQL Server database	Manvendra Singh
Snapshots	Restore SQL Server databases using File Snapshot Backups	Mohammed Moinudheen
SQL Server Management Studio	Make Network Path Visible For SQL Server Backup and Restore in SSMS	Ahmad Yaseen
Tables	Restore Individual Tables Using SQL Server BACPAC	Thomas LaRock
Transparent Data Encryption	How to restore a SQL Server database to another server after disabling TDE	Mohammed Moinudheen
Transparent Data Encryption	Recovering a SQL Server TDE Encrypted Database Successfully	K. Brian Kelley
Troubleshooting	Issues with SQL Server Permissions to Restore a Database	Sergey Gigoyan
Troubleshooting	Why Can't I Restore a Database to an Older Version of SQL Server?	K. Brian Kelley
Tutorials	Understanding SQL Server Log Sequence Numbers for Backups	Simon Liew

Tutorial	Topic	Author
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	SQL Server Restore Options and Commands Tutorial	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	SQL Server Restore Commands	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	How to get the contents of a SQL Server backup file	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	SQL Server RESTORE LABELONLY	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	SQL Server RESTORE FILELISTONLY	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	How to restore a SQL Server backup	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	How to restore a SQL Server transaction log backup	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Checking to make sure a SQL Server backup is useable	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	SQL Server Restore Options	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Recovering a SQL Server database that is in the restoring state	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Restore multiple SQL Server backup files to the same database	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Get SQL Server Restore Percentage Complete	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Restore SQL Server database and overwrite existing database	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Retore SQL Server database to different file name and location	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	SQL Server point in time restore	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Exclusive database access for a SQL Server restore	Greg Robidoux
SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Get Free SQL Tips - SQL Server Restore Tutorial	Greg Robidoux

Title	Speaker
Automate Backup Recovery Before Problems Arise with SQL Safe Backup	Tep Chantra
Restoring SQL Server databases: the options and steps	Edwin Sarmiento

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