Restore Wizard ssms 2014

  • I have a database on 2014 ent edition. When I go to restore the database via ssms (right click > tasks> restore > database) I don't get a wizard window at all it just does nothing. When I use 2008 ssms I get the wizard with the whole log chain built. On the same 2014 instance if I do the same for another database I get the wizard with its log chain? If I chose the other database in that wizard in the source database setting it just spins and spins trying to build the restore plan? Only difference between the two it I do have log shipping enabled on the broken database. Any ideas? I think I am service packed but will check that as well. thanks for any help.

  • Hi,

    Have you tried to attach a SQL Server Profiler so you can see what is doing while you open the restore window? It maybe give you some hint.

    Sorry for not been more helpful.

  • Something must be wrong with your SQL Server Management Studio then. I just validated that it does exactly the same thing on my system as it has always done, open up the Database Restore GUI (not quite a Wizard). Try it connected to a different server just to validate it's not something up with the server itself. Then try uninstalling and reinstalling SSMS. You could also try the stand-alone SSMS install that they have available now. Read more about it here. You should see the GUI though. It's still there.

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  • JManuelN (8/12/2015)


    Hi,

    Have you tried to attach a SQL Server Profiler so you can see what is doing while you open the restore window? It maybe give you some hint.

    Sorry for not been more helpful.

    I strongly advise against using the Profiler GUI on a production system. It's actually somewhat dangerous. Since we're working in a SQL Server version greater than 2008R2, the Extended Events GUI is absolutely the preferred mechanism for observing system behavior.

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  • Thanks for the replys everyone. I have tried from different versions of ssms 2014 and the same behavior exists. If I use 2008r2 it sees the revoceryplan and the dialog opens. I dont understand extended events enough to trouble shoot. I did look and the instance needs sp1 as well as a cu. Could that fix the issue?

  • mlorek (8/12/2015)


    Thanks for the replys everyone. I have tried from different versions of ssms 2014 and the same behavior exists. If I use 2008r2 it sees the revoceryplan and the dialog opens. I dont understand extended events enough to trouble shoot. I did look and the instance needs sp1 as well as a cu. Could that fix the issue?

    It's possible. Also, make sure you apply service packs and cumulative updates to your SSMS gui if you have a stand-alone install.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • What level of SQL Server 2014 are you at? RTM, CU, SP1? select @@version will give you that if you don't know.

  • Thanks Everyone for the help. It turned out to be very simple, but still a little uneasy about the situation. Our maintenance was taking tlog backups and sending them to a network share every 15 minutes. I was for some reason keeping 172 hours of them. When the restore gui launched it tried to build the restore plan against the large amounts of backup sets is what I can deduce. I was never patient enough to let it finish. I took a full backup of the database and ran one tlog out and it would rebuild the backup set, still took a little time. All I can think is the extra backup up tlogs were confusing the chaining. Thanks again for all the help.

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