Restoring deleted records with out of row blobs?

I have a database that had a number of rows in multiple tables deleted -
fortunately there was very little activity after these deletions (mostly more
deletions a few days later).
I have the log files, but the original inserts just have the pointer to the
blob. I tried generating undo scripts with apexsql Log but it doesn't even
reference the blob column when the script generates (restoring from a
detached mdf does give the pointer, but that pointer doesn't go anywhere and
a select on it is blank/null).
How is one supposed to go about restoring records / rolling back a
transaction log for deleting a row with an out-of-row blob? Am I totally
screwed even though nothing else happened in the database aside from the
deletes before the backup was taken?"Andrew Meinert" <AndrewMeinert@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a database that had a number of rows in multiple tables deleted -
> fortunately there was very little activity after these deletions (mostly
> more
> deletions a few days later).
> I have the log files, but the original inserts just have the pointer to
> the
> blob. I tried generating undo scripts with apexsql Log but it doesn't
> even
> reference the blob column when the script generates (restoring from a
> detached mdf does give the pointer, but that pointer doesn't go anywhere
> and
> a select on it is blank/null).
> How is one supposed to go about restoring records / rolling back a
> transaction log for deleting a row with an out-of-row blob? Am I totally
> screwed even though nothing else happened in the database aside from the
> deletes before the backup was taken?
Use the last full backup and the subsequent log backups to do a
point-in-time restore to a new database. Then do INSERTS from the restored
database to your real database.
David|||"David Browne" wrote:
> "Andrew Meinert" <AndrewMeinert@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5CE119C0-80AE-4A16-A452-799A41971BC5@.microsoft.com...
> >I have a database that had a number of rows in multiple tables deleted -
> > fortunately there was very little activity after these deletions (mostly
> > more
> > deletions a few days later).
> >
> > I have the log files, but the original inserts just have the pointer to
> > the
> > blob. I tried generating undo scripts with apexsql Log but it doesn't
> > even
> > reference the blob column when the script generates (restoring from a
> > detached mdf does give the pointer, but that pointer doesn't go anywhere
> > and
> > a select on it is blank/null).
> >
> > How is one supposed to go about restoring records / rolling back a
> > transaction log for deleting a row with an out-of-row blob? Am I totally
> > screwed even though nothing else happened in the database aside from the
> > deletes before the backup was taken?
>
> Use the last full backup and the subsequent log backups to do a
> point-in-time restore to a new database. Then do INSERTS from the restored
> database to your real database.
> David
>
So far it looks like
http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Log_Rescue/index.htm will help me. My
frustrations seem to stem from a limitation with the other software I had
tried. I can see the correct data in the demo of log rescue... here's to
hoping.