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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:47:29+00:00

Folks, Assume you receive a disconnected backup of a SQL Server database (2005 or

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Folks,

Assume you receive a disconnected backup of a SQL Server database (2005 or 2008) and you restore that to your SQL Server instance.

Is there a way, is there a system catalog or something, to find out when the last write operation occured on that particular database? I’d like to be able to find out what day a particular database backup was from – unfortunately, that’s not really being recorded explicitly anywhere, and checking all dozens of data table for the highest date/time stamp isn’t really an option either….

Any ideas? Sure – I can look at the date/time stamp of the *.bak file – but can I find out more precisely from within SQL Server (Management Studio) ??

Thanks!
Marc

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can try RESTORE HEADERONLY on your backup file, as described here

    that should give you the information you’re looking for.

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