Database disasters are relatively few and far between, but when they occur, they can be devastating. Kalen Delaney discusses how you can prevent the loss of data and productivity after a disaster in "Disaster Prevention: Preparing for the Worst," page 24. But in this article, I talk about recovering from isolated disasters—specifically, failures that affect only part of your database. For example, maybe you lost a subset of data such as a table or part of a table. Although restoring the ful...