Question

I am a programmer who has done a very bad thing and somehow didn’t select the WHERE clause before hitting F5 on an update query in SQL Server 2008.
I know this isn’t a programming question but it is a question from a desprate programmer …

Is there anyway to get the one column’s data back from the transaction log or a log kept by the mirroring system?

Oh and yes, it gets better: the nightly maintenance plan for backups seems to have been turned off.

Any ideas please?
-Mike
stunned at reading “(197875 row(s) affected)”

Answer 1

Call off the dogs. I regenerated the database from an old backup and the source log files used to populate it.

In a more lucid moment I came to understand my question as:

Is the original value of a row stored in the transaction log of an update operation?
I’m almost sure the answer is no.

Thanks for listening.

-Mike