Point in Time Recovery

sometimes detrimental command will probably be issued against one of your databases and you will need to recover the lost data. There are several actions that you might be able to take to recover the lost data, but what option makes the most sense. One option that SQL Server offers is the ability to do point in time restores of your data in order to restore your database back to the point right before that detrimental command was issued.

Point-in-Time Restore:-

1-This topic is relevant only for databases that are using full or bulk-logged recovery mode. Under the bulk-logged recovery model, if a log backup contains bulk-logged changes, point-in-time recovery is not possible to a point within that backup. The database must be recovered to the end of the transaction log backup.
2-Restore the last full database backup and, if any, the last differential database backup without recovering the database (RESTORE DATABASE database_name FROM backup_device WITH NORECOVERY).
3-Apply each transaction log backup in the same sequence in which they were created, specifying the time at which you intend to stop restoring log (RESTORE DATABASE database_name FROM WITH STOPAT=time, RECOVERY).
4-The basic syntax is:

RESTORE LOG database_name FROM WITH STOPAT =time, RECOVERY…


Cmnds are:

-- Restore the full database backup.
RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks
FROM disk='backup file location'
WITH NORECOVERY;
GO
RESTORE LOG AdventureWorks
FROM disk='backup file location'
WITH RECOVERY, STOPAT = 'Apr 15, 2005 12:00 AM';
GO