Re: Restore database after drop command

* Adarsh Sharma:

> I restore globedatabase from a .sql file on yesterday morning.I insert
> some new data in that database.
> In the evening, by mistake I issued a *drop database globedatabase* command.
>
> Today morning, I restore again the same database from backup (.sql) file.
> My .sql file have data till yesterday morning but I want newly insert
> data now. Is it possible.
>
> Is it possible to get the data back till the state before drop
> database command.

It might have been possible if you had performed a hard shutdown
directly after discovering the mistake, by undeleting the database files
at the operating system level. This has been made more difficult
(perhaps even impossible) by your subsequent write activity.

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