Author: Carm Vecchio

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How to start SQL Server without a MASTER database

Issue SQL Server depends on the MASTER and RESOURCE databases for critical information required to start the instance. Without these databases your SQL SERVER will not start. We recently had an outage where everything on the RAID-5 disk drive array containing the SQL Server system (master, resource, model and MSDB) and USER databases was lost due to hardware failure. After...

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