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Mar 25, 2003

After being put in a position where I had to deal with a SQL problem without very little SQL knowledge I have screwed a clients main database up.

I backed up the transaction log and then deleted the log. The database is shown as suspect and won't let me restore.

Am I F&%ked?


Any help in sorting this out will be rewarded with much kudos and thanks

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0
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