How to recover database from .mdf file

Question

create a database of
equal size to the one you're trying to attach
shutdown the server (Stop)
swap in the old mdf file (replace new .mdf file with .mdf file to be recovered )
Location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA
bring up the server (start) and let the database attempt to be recovered and then go into suspect mode
put the database into emergency mode with ALTER DATABASE
run DBCC CHECKDB (dbname, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS) which will rebuild the log and run full repair
Your database will be available again but you'll have lost data and the data won't be transactionally consistent
USE [master]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [RdmStoreInformation] SET EMERGENCY
GO
ALTER DATABASE [RdmStoreInformation] SET SINGLE_USER
GO
DBCC CHECKDB ([RdmStoreInformation], REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS)
GO
ALTER DATABASE [RdmStoreInformation] SET MULTI_USER
GO
ALTER DATABASE [RdmStoreInformation] SET ONLINE
GO
This is a issue I had to fix and it's solution listed here for your reference(I gathered all the In-formations by surfing web)

Answer 1

Interesting, did you get any errors trying to attach the .mdf file?
Best Regards,Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP,
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