If your company depends on relational and object-oriented databases to help your operations perform, then you know that having to deal with a database corruption or outage can be a nightmare. Not having an available, reliable backup from which to restore can have an exceedingly negative impact on your entire organization.

Even though most IT professionals attempt to have a well-tested backup system in place, the unfortunate fact is, bad things can happen to anyone at anytime. Device failure or data corruption can become an unexpected source of frustration, leaving the database files totally useless. If this happens to you, first check if any recent backups are available. If not, contact the data recovery professionals at SalvageData without delay, before the damage becomes irreversible.

When brought on in at the early onset of any database failure, SalvageData engineers can guide you on how to proceed and how to prevent further damages. We can immediately asses the problem by uploading the database files directly to our servers for immediate analysis and evaluation. During this evaluation and assessment we will unpack compressed fields, or reconstruct the fields in the database in order for us to determine how extensive the damage really is. Once having assessed the database, we will provide a report and letting you know how much data can be salvaged and associated cost for the recovery.

At SalvageData we realize and understand that your corporate databases are an essential part of your operations and that’s precisely why we're constantly working to perfect the safest, fastest, and most reliable processes to recover your critical data.

Common causes of Databases data loss:

• Backup files not recognizable by database engine.
• Database locked as 'suspect' preventing access.
• Deleted or dropped tables.
• Accidentally deleted records.
• Corrupted database files and devices.
• Damaged individual data pages.
• Accidentally overwritten database files & devices.

Supported databases include: Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle & MySQL.

As soon as we’ve analyzed your database and records contained, we’ll extract data so we can rebuild it. After completely rebuilding the database we’ll test the structural integrity of every file to ensure that your system will run as expected.

Data Recovery Tip #21: Schedule and run full virus scan regularly, or nightly whenever possible.