• Probably not. What errors are you getting when trying to select from the tables?

    If it were a corrupt DB, there might be a chance or reading the pages raw and decoding them by hand. Is really time consuming and requires a great deal of experience. Since the backup that you restored was corrupt, the data probably isn't there at all.

    What did MS's product support say?

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