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A support engineer reports that inserting new sales transactions in a SQL Server 2005 database results in an error. You investigate the error. You discover that in one of the databases, a developer has accidentally deleted some data in a table that is critical for transaction processing. The database uses the full recovery model. You need to restore the table. You need to achieve this goal without affecting the availability of other data in the database. What should you do?

  1. Back up the current transaction log. Restore the database with a different name and stop at

  2. Back up the current transaction log. Restore the database to the point just before the data loss.

  3. Restore the database from the existing backup files to a time just before the data loss.

  4. Restore the database to the point of the last full backup.
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Explanation

The key is to restore to a different database name (using the STOPAT option to specify time), then copy the missing table back. This avoids affecting the production database's availability while recovering the lost data.

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