Database Recovery Services, 24/7 Expert Support

We provide comprehensive database recovery services worldwide, ensuring support for all major database platforms across your professional media, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Database management is crucial for the smooth operation of a business, as the stored information is often sensitive and requires optimal protection. However, when incidents strike, a professional and specialized approach is essential to minimize loss and downtime.

The Importance of Professional Intervention

Modern businesses depend heavily on their accumulated data. Consequently, when this essential information becomes inaccessible:

• Risk of Exacerbation: Attempting DIY recovery risks exacerbating the problem, potentially making permanent recovery impossible.
• Specialized Complexity: Database corruption (due to file system errors, damaged media, or incomplete files) requires deep knowledge of the database engine’s internal structure—something generic tools cannot provide.

Why Choose AS for Database Recovery?

Our specialized expertise covers a wide range of database systems, allowing us to effectively meet the complex needs of your recovery:

• Extensive Platform Support: We specialize in database recovery for systems such as Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft Access, Sybase, dBase, Microsoft SharePoint, and many other environments.
• Reliable and Secure: Our ability to work on these different technologies allows us to offer a highly secure and reliable database recovery service, tailored to your specific infrastructure.

Our Database Recovery Services Process

This process is designed for speed and efficiency, minimizing the impact on your activity:

• Initial Consultation: We assess the situation and determine the best strategy based on the issue encountered (e.g., file system errors, damaged storage media, missing, deleted, or incomplete files).
• Detailed Diagnosis: A comprehensive diagnosis precisely identifies the causes of data loss and establishes a clear action plan. We provide you with a list of all recoverable rows and tables from the databases.
• Recovery and Restoration: Using our specialized tools and expertise, we recover your lost or corrupted databases with the highest possible success rate.
• Prevention: Following successful recovery, we advise you on best practices and backup solutions to prevent future incidents.

Supported databases

3. Cloud Databases

• Amazon RDS / Aurora
• Google Cloud SQL / Firestore
• Azure SQL Database
• AWS DynamoDB
• Cosmos DB

6. Email Databases

• Microsoft Exchange (EDB files)
• Outlook (PST/OST)
• Lotus Domino
• MBOX-based systems

SQL Server Recovery Services

SQL Server recovery is essential when Microsoft SQL Server databases become inaccessible due to corruption, hardware failure, ransomware incidents, or unexpected shutdowns. These events often result in damaged MDF and LDF files, broken transaction logs, or databases stuck in SUSPECT or RECOVERY PENDING mode. Without proper handling, however, repeated restart attempts or incorrect repair commands can permanently damage recoverable data.

Professional SQL Server Recovery focuses on restoring database integrity while preserving critical business data. The recovery process begins with a detailed assessment of the database state, SQL Server version, and root cause of failure. This step is crucial, as each corruption scenario requires a specific recovery approach. Therefore, applying generic fixes can worsen logical corruption and lead to irreversible data loss.

When SQL Server failures occur after cyber incidents, immediate Ransomware help is required to prevent further damage. Advanced Ransomware recovery solutions focus on restoring databases without relying on attacker-provided decryption tools. Specialized Ransomware Solutions ensure that recovered databases are free from hidden encryption routines, backdoors, or persistence mechanisms before being returned to production.

Common SQL Server Recovery Scenarios

• Corrupted MDF or NDF data files

• Damaged or missing transaction log (LDF) files

• Databases stuck in SUSPECT or RECOVERY PENDING state

• SQL Server crashes after ransomware or malware incidents

• Accidental deletion of database files or critical tables

• Failed SQL Server upgrades or patch installations

Comprehensive Database Recovery Services involve repairing internal database structures, reconstructing metadata, and recovering tables, indexes, stored procedures, and relationships. In complex cases, data is extracted at the object level and rebuilt into a clean database environment to ensure long-term stability and consistency.

When database files are severely damaged, File Recovery techniques are used to extract usable data segments while preserving original files for validation. All recovery procedures are performed in controlled environments to prevent further damage, and original database files are preserved wherever possible to minimize data loss.

SQL Server recovery services support multiple SQL Server versions and configurations, including standalone servers, virtualized environments, and RAID-based storage systems. The objective is not just to make the database accessible, but to restore it in a reliable, secure, and application-ready state.

Database-Specific Targets

What Ransomware Typically Encrypts

• Oracle: .dbf datafiles, control files, redo logs, archive logs
• MySQL: .ibd tablespace files, ibdata1, .frm files, binary logs

#Common file extensions targeted by ransomware

• Oracle: *.dbf, *.ctl, *.log, *.arc, *.bkp, *.ora
• MySQL: *.ibd, *.frm, .MYD, .MYI, ibdata, ib_logfile

#Ransomware may also target

• Backup files: (*.bak, *.dump, *.sql)
• Export files: (*.dmp, *.exp)
• Configuration files

Why Partial Recovery is Often Possible

Speed vs. Thoroughness Trade-off

Attackers face a dilemma: fully encrypting large database files takes time, increasing the chance of detection. Most ransomware uses one of these shortcuts:

• Header Encryption: Only encrypts the first few KB/MB of each file
• Intermittent Encryption: Encrypts every Nth block (e.g., every 16th block)
• Size-Based: Only encrypts files under a certain size, or first X MB of larger files
• Extension-Based: May miss some database file types entirely

This is Good News!

How AS Data Recovery Exploits This?

AS Data Recovery, reads database files at the block/page level, not as monolithic files. This means:

• Encrypted file headers? Bypassed—we scan for data block signatures.
• Intermittent encryption? We extract unencrypted blocks.
• Corrupted metadata? Heuristic scanning finds data patterns.

Ransomware-Encrypted .dbf File Analysis

The following diagram illustrates how data remains recoverable despite encryption:

AS Data Recovery Result Example:

• 48,500 of 50,000 blocks readable (97%).
• 2,847,293 of 2,900,000 rows recovered (98.2%).

Database problems that may require data recovery

Two Main Ransomware Data Recovery Modes