Restore detached content DB list data to another SP 2010 instance
Had quite a scare today, when one of our business users asked why he couldn’t get to his SharePoint 2010 library. It’s because we blew away that box due to configuration issues, and didn’t realize he was using it. Oops! Fortunately, our Sr. Network Admin (also the DBA) was smart enough to detach the DB (not drop it). I looked at the content in SSMS and sure enough, that was where his data was. Here’s what I did to restore…