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

I hope it is easy to do so,

1. Open SQL Server
2. Click New Query

3. Execute the following query

   sp_attach_single_file_db @dbname='dbname',@physname='C:\Database\dbname.MDF'

Where dbname is you want to show in Object Explorer, where @physname is the local filepath location of your mdf file.

Hope it will help someone, i done by above, got both structure and also data.

Tested in Sql Server 2000 and 2008. In Sql Server 2000 it is not working, but works perfectly in 2008.