SQL Database Stuck in Restoring State

Summary: A SQL database goes into restoring state for the following reasons; Hardware error, database size, machine restart during working transactions, database file corruption, missing log file, etc. In this article, we will study how we can save or restore the SQL database when it is stuck in a restoring state. First, we will see the scenarios where the database gets stuck in the restoring state. Secondly, we will study how we can handle these situations and solve this problem by Manual and Software approaches.

When SQL database stuck in a restoring state, and you try to use the database then, it throws an error “the database DB_NAME is not accessible.” Click OK, and you will see the database still stuck in restoring state as shown in the figure:.

How to Fix the SQL Database Stuck in Restoring State Issue?

Now, the database is ready to use.

Here I have explained the different method to fix the database from restoring state. Now, there is one more method by which you can fix the database restoring issue.

Alternative Solution

The alternative solution is Stellar Repair for MS SQL which repairs and rebuilds corrupt SQL database. Select the corrupt MDF file and repair it. You can also save the database in four different formats.

Conclusion

We went through the detailed methods on how to recover MS SQL Database from when a database stuck in the Restoring state. MS SQL Database used for storing a large amount of data. We will retrieve useful results using MS SQL Management Studio. Sometimes when the server and machine are restarting, and some operations are in the process, the database got corrupted. Then the database is stuck in the restoring state. We use a simple database restore method that takes the .bak file and restore our database. But first, we need to drop the database from the root folder of the database.
On the other hand, we studied a second method in which we restored our database with no recovery option. After completing the restore successfully, we see the file is in restoring state. In the next step, we write a query that recovers the database and make the database is useful.

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