>>Ok. So far, I was able to restore the .bak copy of the SQL database into a different name database.
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>>Could I have, also, restored the .bak copy right into the "damaged" database? That is, if I selected the current "messed up" database and clicked on Tasks -> Restore and then pointed to the MyDatabase.Bak, would it replace the existing database with the one in the .bak?
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>That would be a regular restore. I do not think SQL Server does any kind of verification to see if the actual database is corrupted before restoring over it.
What seemed strange to me is that the .bak file is about half the size of the actual database .MDF file. Does it mean that .bak has it compressed? Or .bak file does not have something that the actual .MDF file has?
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