In more than 10 years of experience, I have dealt with cases where someone has performed incorrect operations on a table, such as updating or deleting wrong rows, in a SQL Server database that does not have full backups available. There are multiple reasons for no full backup: corrupted backups, taking too much time to restore, etc.
In this post, I want to show an alternative for these cases, an ace up one’s sleeve, that you can use to recover data. This method also provides a deep understanding of the internal workings of how your SQL Server stores data. So,