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description: Competitive comparison between our DataNumen SQL Recovery and the other 11 popular competitors in the market.
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# DataNumen SQL Recovery Competitive Comparison
| **Note: Most of the data files for the test cases are downloadable. For some very large files, you can get it by [send a request to us](https://www.datanumen.com/contact/).
We can also provide all the detailed technology information about the tests and statistics, to make sure the comparision is fair.**
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| | DataNumen SQL Recovery 7.3 | SQL Server
DBCC CHECKDB &
CHECKTABLE | Recovery for SQL Server 4.7 | Kernel SQL Database Repair and Recovery Utility 13.5.1 | Stellar Phoenix SQL Recovery 5.0 | SQL Database Repair Tool 6.0 | Recovery Toolbox for SQL Server 2.1.5 | ApexSQL Recover 2014.01.1112 | SysTools SQL Recovery 6 | QuickData MDF Recovery 5.5 | Quick Recovery for SQL Server | Recoveryfix for SQL Database Recovery 12.03 |
| Recovery Rate
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| **Average Recovery Rate\*** | 92.60% | 1.27% | 8.78% | 8.88% | 8.88% | 8.88% | 63.24% | 8.81% | 8.88% | 8.88% | 3.80% | 10.72% |
| [**Case 1
(5MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2005 Format)**](https://compare.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/Case1_Damaged.mdf) | 88.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 86.20% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| [**Case 2
(50MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2005 Format)**](https://compare.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/Case2_Damaged.mdf) | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 99.98% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| [**Case 3
(100MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008 Format)**](https://compare.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/Case3_Damaged.mdf) | 100.00% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 99.36% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| [**Case 4
(500MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008 Format)**](https://compare.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/Case4_Damaged.mdf) | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 66.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| [**Case 5
(1GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008R2 Format)**](https://compare.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/Case5_Damaged.mdf) | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.18% | 0.18% | 0.18% | 0.20% | 53.28% | 0.00% | 0.20% | 0.20% | 0.00% | 0.20% |
| **Case 6
(2GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008R2 Format)** | 100.00% | 0.00% | 49.60% | 50.60% | 50.60% | 50.60% | 53.26% | 50.10% | 50.60% | 50.60% | 0.00% | 69.00% |
| **Case 7
(4GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2012 Format)** | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| **Case 8
(8GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2012 Format)** | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 77.80% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| **Case 9
(10GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2014 Format)** | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 78.50% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| **Case 10
(15GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2012 Format)** | 100.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 80.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| OS Support
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| 32bit Windows
(Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11/
Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/
2019) |  |  |  |  |  |  | Windows Vista unsupported | Windows XP/
Server 2003
unsupported |  |  |  |  |
| 64bit Windows
(Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11/
Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/
2019) |  |  | Windows 8 unsupported |  |  |  | Windows Server 2008/Vista unsupported | Windows
Server 2003
unsupported |  |  |  |  |
| SQL Server Support
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| 32bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2017/2019/2022) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 64bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2017/2019/2022) |  |  | SQL Server 2014 unsupported |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Input/Output File Format Support
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| Input MDF file created by 32bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2017/2019/2022) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | SQL
Server 2008R/2012/
2014
unsupported |  |
| Input MDF file created by 64bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2017/2019/2022) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | SQL
Server 2008R/2012/
2014 unsupported |  |
| Output file in MDF format and SQL plain text format |  | SQL plain
text unsupported |  |  | MDF unsupported |  |  |  |  |  | MDF unsupported |  |
| Large MDF File Support
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| Recover MDF files as large as 16 TB |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Capabilities in Recovering Objects
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| Recover the structure and data in the tables |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Support all data types | XML type unsupported |  | XML type unsupported | XML type unsupported | XML type unsupported | ntext, nvariant,
sql\_variant, varbinary
and
XML type unsupported |  |  | ntext,nchar,
nvarchar,
varbinary,
sql\_variant,
xml types
unsupported | ntext,nchar,
nvarchar,
varbinary,
sql\_variant,
xml types
unsupported | ntext,nvarchar,
varchar,text,
smallmoney,
image,
xml types
unsupported | xml type unsupported |
| Support sparse column |  |  | Yes
(only support SQL Server 2008 format) | ![No]() |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |  |
| Recover deleted records |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |  | ![No]() | ![No]() |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Recover multiple files, including MDF file and its associated NDF files |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Other Features
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| Support to repair MDF files on corrupted media, such as floppy disks, Zip disks, CDROMs, etc. |  |  | ![No]() |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |  |
| Support to repair a batch of MDF files. |  |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Support to find and select the MDF files to be repaired on the local computer, according to some search criteria. |  | ![No]() |  | ![No]() |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Support integration with Windows Explorer, so you can repair an MDF file with the context menu of Windows Explorer easily. |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Support drag & drop operation. |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Support command line (DOS prompt) parameters. |  |  |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
| Support 95 languages, including:
English,Bulgarian,Czech,Danish,German,Greek,Spanish,Estonian,Finnish,
French,Hungarian,Indonesian,Italian,Japanese,Korean,ithuanian,Latvian,
Norwegian,Dutch,Polish,Portuguese,Romanian,Russian,Slovak,Slovenian,
Swedish,Turkish,Ukrainian,Chinese(Simplified),Afrikaans,Albanian,
Amharic,Arabic,Armenian,Assamese,Azerbaijani,Basque,Belarusian,
Bengali,Bosnian,Catalan,Chinese(Traditional),Corsican,Croatian,Divehi,
Filipino,Frisian,Galician,Georgian,Gujarati,Hausa,Hebrew,Hindi,Icelandic,
Igbo,Irish,Kannada,Kazakh,Khmer,Kinyarwanda,Kyrgyz,Lao,
Luxembourgish,Macedonian,Malay,Malayalam,Maltese,Maori,Marathi,
Mongolian,Nepali,Oriya,Pashto,Persian,Punjabi,Sanskrit,Scottish Gaelic,
Sesotho,Serbian,Sinhala,Kiswahili,Tajik,Tamil,Tatar,Telugu,Thai,Turkmen,
Urdu,Uyghur,Uzbek,Vietnamese,Welsh,isiXhosa,Yoruba,isiZulu |  | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() | ![No]() |
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