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Restore SQL Database From Backup In Single User mode

SQL is a popular database management system used across the globe. Though it’s a mature application, SQLs data needs to be backed up from time to time. From this backup, you can restore the database when any need arises.

Situations When You Have To Restore SQL Data

In certain situations, you need to restore the SQL database from the backups. Let’s discuss them:

These are a few of the popular reasons behind the data loss due to which a user needs to restore the data.

Ways to Get Exclusive Access to Restore SQL Database

Before moving to the restoring process, one should know that if you want to restore the SQL database, you need exclusive access to it. This can be done by putting the database to Single User Mode.

So, let’s first discuss the ways to get exclusive access;

Set database in Single User Mode

During maintenance actions, databases are set to Single-use Mode, so that only one user can access the database at a time (this is the case with master databases).

Different methods can be used to set a database to Single-user Mode. For e.g.: ALTER DATABASE command can be used with different switches to put a database in a single user mode:

How to Restore SQL Database form backups?

Now, let’s move to the restoring process and know how one can restore the database.

Point to Keep in Mind: The very first rule to keep in mind while starting the restore process is that you need to put the database in Single user mode.

Step 1- Put the Database in Single User Mode

To put the database on Single User mode (With Rollback Immediate), follow the Command mention below:

ALTER DATABASE [Database Name] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

This ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE doesn’t wait for transactions to complete. As the name suggests ‘Rollback,’ it resets the database to the point where the transaction actually started, and ‘With Rollback Immediate.’ It basically starts rolling back all the incomplete transactions immediately.

Step 2- Provide the Restore Command

Once you put the database to Single User Mode, you can run the Restore command, so that the restore process could take place. Enter the following command:

RESTORE DATABASE [Database Name]
FROM DISK = ‘Backup location\Backup file.BAK’

Step 3- Put the Database back to Multi-User Mode

Once you are done with restoring the database, you can put the database to Multi-user mode. To put the database to Multi-user mode, input the following command:

ALTER DATABASE [Database Name] SET MULTI_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

How To Repair an SQL Database File?

If restoring the database is a bit complicated for you or it doesn’t work, then don’t be disappointed. With SQL Recovery Tool, you can achieve similar results faster. This is an automated method, and hence you need not have much technical knowledge to work with it. You just need to follow simple steps asked by the tool, and you are done with restoring the database in no time. To have a better idea of the tool, I am sharing a screenshot of it:

This is a screenshot of the tool where I have added the SQL database file. Next, click on the Recover button and proceed with the recovery process, ultimately resulting in Restoring the database.

Conclusion:

In this blog, we have discussed all about restoring the SQL database. We have discussed why one needs to restore the SQL database and how one can recover it manually. Also, we have discussed about SQL Recovery Tool and explained how one could benefit from it in restoring the SQL database. We have more SQL related blogs on how to restore master database, or what to do when SQL server database stuck in restoring state, do check them. To gather more information about the tool, you can visit the tool’s page on the Website.