Sql-server – Capture when any database is restored on the server

restoresql serversql server 2014

Is there any way that I can identify when a database is restored on the server? I created a server trigger but only triggers when I create a new database not after is restored from another one.

I'm using SQL Server 2014, trying to achieve this using MSMS, using msdb.dbo.restorehistory is good but I don't want to create a job for that, trying to find something straightforward

I want to know as s DBA when any database is created or restored, just for control.

I found that there is no DDL trigger for RESTORE, there is however Event Notification for the AUDIT_BACKUP_RESTORE_EVENT but I didn't find any good example of how to use it.

could someone tell me which accounts I need to merge? I'm confuse, I did it with my account on stackoverflow and it says is already linked and I can't continue

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Under the assumption that you are using SQL Server, you can create a trigger against the msdb..restorehistory table.

Go ahead and query that table to see what information is in there; I think you can achieve what you are doing.

See Know when a database has been restored

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I'm not sure if I fully understand your question. First you say you want to find the last restore made to a certain database. You can find all relevant information (databases, files, lsns, times) on these restores through

SELECT *
FROM [msdb].[dbo].[restorehistory] r
INNER JOIN [msdb].[dbo].[backupset] b 
ON b.backup_set_id = r.backup_set_id

But I'm not sure what you mean with "finding the rest of the needed backups". If you want to look at the backups made in an instance you can do this through

SELECT * FROM [msdb].[dbo].[backupset]

Hope that helps.

Sql-server – Installing SQL Server 2014 Express fails with error “ Could not find the Database Engine startup handle.”

Could not find database engine startup handle error means SQL Server installation was able to install SQL Server services but when installation is trying to start SQL Server services its failing.

A simple solution I mentioned In This Technet Article is

Please go to SQL Server configuration manager and locate the SQL Server services

Right click on SQL Server express service and select properties and change startup account to Local System and select apply then OK. This will start services with Local system account privilege.

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Certain reasons which can cause this error.

The account which user selected on Server Configuration page window ( during installation) is somehow not able to bring SQL Server database engine services online. Either is lacks privilege or it is corrupted. During installation of database engine services SQL Server tries to bring online database services as a internal process but due to startup account either corrupt or not having appropriate privileges it fails to do so and ultimately installation fails.
Other reason is when installation fails first time due to some reason and user uninstall failed installation from add remove program, the un-installation leaves account in broken state so any further attempt to install flashes this error message.
The reason can be also that SQL Server installation was successful in installing SQL Server and its services but due to some other limitation in system or other system related errors SQL Server is not able to come online.

In Your case reason is

2015-02-08 19:55:06.16 spid14s     Error: 17190, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2015-02-08 19:55:06.16 spid14s     Initializing the FallBack certificate failed with error code: 1, state: 20, error number: 0.
2015-02-08 19:55:06.16 spid14s     Unable to initialize SSL encryption because a valid certificate could not be found, and it is not possible to create a self-signed certificate.
2015-02-08 19:55:06.16 spid14s     Error: 17182, Severity: 16, State: 1.

To solve this Either start SQL Server service account with Local System or Create a new local account having admin privileges on the local machine and try starting SQL Server service with that account. This Blogs.msdn article says such error can come if account profile is corrupt

As you are already aware running SQL Server service with account having admin privileges is not advised. In such case for time being you can run the account with local system but you can use Configure Windows Service Account and Permissions to create account with minimum privileges.

EDIT:

FCB::Open failed: Could not open file E:\sql12_main_t.obj.x86Release\sql\mkmastr\databases\mkmastr.proj\MSDBData.mdf for file number 1. OS error: 2(The system cannot find the file specified.).

2015-02-09 10:42:45.12 spid8s Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101.

2015-02-09 10:42:45.12 spid8s Unable to open the physical file "E:\sql12_main_t.obj.x86Release\sql\mkmastr\databases\mkmastr.proj\MSDBData.mdf". Operating system error 2: "2(The system cannot find the file specified.)".

2015-02-09 10:42:45.12 spid8s Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.

As per below logs SQL Server is searching for msdb file at location E:\sql12_main_t.obj.x86Release\sql\mkmastr\databases\mkmastr.proj\

Can you manually move both msdb data file and log file to above location. I know this is not your desired location but let first SQL Server come online then we can use alter database command and change location to what ever suits you. To me this is bug and is happening because SQL Server is unable to ,somehow, decide the location of msd files and so choosing random location.

Revert if this does not works

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