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When restoring the SQL Server database from backup, you may encounter the “Restore of database failed, Database is in use” error message. This happens if someone is running queries or if you have an active connection or active windows running on the database to be restored.
The complete error message looks like the following:
One of the day-to-day tasks of database administrators is to keep the MySQL Server up and running. They have to also ensure that the database remains healthy.
However, even after taking all the precautions, situations arise that can lead to corruption in the database.
The SQL database is always in one of the modes: online, offline, suspect, storing, recovery pending, and emergency. When the SQL database recovery fails, or the database becomes damaged or corrupted, it moves to suspect mode. When the database is marked as SUSPECT mode, the database is unavailable for user access. You can recover the database from the suspected state using different commands in SSMS. In this article, we’ll cover what causes the database to go to suspect mode and its recovery methods. Also, we’ll outline an advanced MS SQL repair tool to help you quickly restore the database from suspect mode without data loss.
The SQL Server database suspect mode indicates the recovery process has started but failed to finish. The database states may become suspect due to several reasons. Some of them are below: