Read data from dropped columns

It s hard to destroy data. Even when a column is dropped, the data is still physically there on the data page. We can use the undocumented/unsupported command DBCC PAGE to look at it. Example First, create a table based on English values from sys.messages: use tempdb; go /* create table based on english values from [ ] The post Read data from dropped columns first appeared on Michael J. Swart .