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Recovering a file from sharepoint database

DESCRIPTION
This article describes how to recover deleted BLOB data from the online Sharepoint database as files.
Note: ApexSQL Recover supports recovery of BLOB values from database files (online, detached and db backups) only. Recovery of BLOB values from transaction log files is not supported yet.

SOLUTION
1. Please make sure that you detached the db and backed up the raw MDF and LDF files. Doing full backup won’t do the trick as it will just backup pages in use and active part of transaction log whereas we need both deallocated pages and the entire transaction log to maximize chances of good recovery.

2. Once you have backed up the files please attach them as another database, put it into readonly mode. If this is not possible, than please put original database to readonly mode, the less post-incident activities is performed on database the more possibility for successful data recovery

3. Open ApexSQL Recover and point it to your SQL Server: