How to recover database from MDF in SQL Server 2005?

Question

I have an MDF file and no LDF files for a database created in MS SQL Server 2005. When I try to attach the MDF file to a different SQL Server, I get the following error messa

Answer 1

have you tried to ignore the ldf and just attach the mdf:

sp_attach_single_file_db [ @dbname = ] 'dbname' , [ @physname = ] 'physical_name'

i don't know exactly what will happen to your open transactions (probably just lost), but it might get your data back online.

-don