SharePoint recovery to recover SharePoint database under any corruptionFile Repair Tool Blog

Microsoft SharePoint is one of the great innovative invention of Microsoft corporation, it is very helpful for industries. Through SharePoint they can easily store and share information and utilities from numerous sources. It is actually a web associated server related to file sharing, web publishing and collaboration. It provides many useful features to the user and so that one can easily build content management sites, portals and collaboration sites. A SharePoint server can able to store huge amount of important information that are used to be shared crossways different branches of an organization or among different organizations.

But sometimes the SharePoint database becomes corrupt and after corruption one cannot access and update their SharePoint database related sites. To restore SharePoint database and fix all types of corruption you have to use any recovery method.

To avoid SharePoint corruption you have to know the causes behind the corruption of SharePoint database file. Because by reading about the causes we can protect them from corruption.

Some causes of SharePoint corruption are given bellow:

• Computer malware and virus attack can affect the SharePoint database very badly and due to malware infection a normal SharePoint database become inaccessible. So it is necessary to use an updated and strong antivirus program. It is also necessary to scan your computer by using antivirus program after a fix interval of time.
• A corrupt or deleted file system can also affect your SharePoint database because some system files are related or linked with the SharePoint database. A corrupt file system can make a SharePoint database permanently corrupt or damage it so to avoid this type of corruption make sure that all the system files are safe and protect with any internal and external factor.
• Hardware component of the computer system can also affect the SharePoint database, if the hard disk of your computer has bad sector then it can also affect the SharePoint. Any bad sector of computer hard disk can make SharePoint database inaccessible. So provide complete protection to your computer from this type of problem.
• Bug problem can also make your SharePoint database corrupt or damage, if any bug present in the existing SharePoint server then try any method to remove bug. It is very important to fix bug immediately because day by day it will make your database more corrupted.

Corruption and inaccessibility of the SharePoint database may stop many instant tasks and direct the business towards the loss. However, if you are getting any error while accessing your SharePoint database or unable to update your SharePoint database then sort-out it immediately because day after day then the problem may get worse resulting in the permanent loss of data.

But it is also true that data from any media never gets permanently delete and can be restored only if it is not being overwritten by some other data. If the corrupt SharePoint database gets overwritten by other data then recovery become very complex.

If you have any recently created backup file then you can also fix any types of error and corruption by simply restoring it. But if not then the one and only method is third party SharePoint recovery tool.  Apply this recovery tool and make your SharePoint database error free.

How To recover SharePoint database under any corruption:

1. Firstly launch the SharePoint Recovery Tool you would find an interface. This interface screen displays two options to recover SharePoint data: ‘Complete Repair’ and ‘Document Recovery’ Select as per your requirement.
2. If you choose ‘Complete Repair’, the screen will show the options for selecting and searching SQL Server (.MDF) files. Click on ‘Select File’ to select a SharePoint database for repair. If you do not know the actual path of the database which you want to repair, click on the ‘Search File’ to locate the MDF file in a specific drive. After selecting the desired file initiate the scanning process
3. After finishing the scan, the software would generate a tree of all SharePoint database tables and will display it in the left pane. You can select the table in the tree and can have the entire preview in the right pane. Then Click on ‘Repair’ to begin repairing for the selected database.
4. After clicking on ‘Repair’, this dialog box will appear. Specify the SQL Server name or Instance name and the desired destination path. Click on the ‘Browse’ option to choose the destination path. And select ‘OK’ button.
5. Once this process gets completed, you would find a dialog box that displays this message ‘Recovered file saved at the desired location. This shows that Recovery Process has successfully completed’. And select ‘OK’ button.
6. You would find another dialog box that asks whether you want to attach the repaired database to the web application. If you click on ‘Yes’ button, the above dialog box will be displayed. In the web application URL type, the name of the corrupt database and SQL Server Instance name. Then Select ‘OK’ button and proceed. When the process gets finished, you would be able to access the repaired database by opening the web application.