Faulty Updates Cause Database Corruption in SharePoint

Posted: Feb 21, 2011 |Comments: 0 |

Microsoft SharePoint Server lets you create Server Farms to collaborate the services it offers. Server Farm is a collection of various SharePoint services and even more than one SharePoint Servers. It enables easy access and functioning of all the SharePoint resources and offer high-performance. However, in some situations, some of the SharePoint services may become inaccessible in this configuration and cause data loss. At this point, SharePoint recovery becomes need of hour.

For a practical example of this problem with Microsoft SharePoint Server, you may face performance issues while trying to edit the AltAccessMappings component on parent farm. Furthermore, the following error message occur in Event log of MS SharePoint Server-

"Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server Shared Services
Event ID: 6480
Date:13.12.2010
Time: 17:34:44
User: N/A
Computer: 1103
Description: An exception occurred while executing the alternate url synchronizer job.

Reason: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPAlternateUrlCollection Name=web-Collaboration_80b781da-f383-42d2-a463-396b3eeec2e0 Parent=SPFarm Name=child_config is being updated by domain\user, in the OWSTIMER process, on machine 1103.

Techinal Support Details:
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPAlternateUrlCollection Name=web-Collaboration_80b781da-f383-42d2-a463-396b3eeec2e0 Parent=SPFarm Name=child_config is being updated by domain\user, in the OWSTIMER process, on machine 1103."

Root of the problem-

As stated in the above error message, this problem may occur due to any of the following reasons-

  • An update conflict is there with SharePoint database and updated database is unreadable.
  • SharePoint Server database is damaged and MS SharePoint Server can not recognize it.

Resolution-

Use the following steps to recover SharePoint data in such situations-

  • Rollback the database and remove the updates. If it fixes the problem, then you can re-try installing the updates.
  • If SharePoint database is damaged, then you need to restore database from the most recent and valid backup. In order to recover SharePoint 2007 and 2010 database to its original state, the backup must be updated and in working state.

If none of the above methods help you recover data from damaged SharePoint database, then you need to opt for commercial SharePoint recovery tools. The applications are particularly designed to perform in-depth scan of whole database and extract your valuable data from it. They work in all corruption scenarios and are capable of retrieving all database objects.

Stellar Phoenix SharePoint Server Recovery is the most efficient utility to repair and restore SharePoint 2010 and 2007 databases.

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