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  • June 18, 2013 at 11:26 am

    #1625161

    Either the database was switched to simple recovery or the log was truncated explicitly (which isn't possible on SQL 2008) or the database was reverted to a snapshot. That's about the only things that will break the log chain and have SQL know about it.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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