title: recover data from mdf files (ndf being missing)
body: <p>Our client's server got corrupted and the drives containing NDF and LDF files were gone. The only drive that survived was the one with MDF files. </p>
  
  <p>There were no backups of any sort. They recovered the database, which I know just a gist of, by creating new database (from a old database, I guess) and applied bcp utility to copy data over to the new one. But, they would not release the information how they actually recovered. </p>
  
  <p>So, I was just curious to find how it is possible to recover data from MDF files only, when the NDF files are lost/missing. </p>