Use the below script to get the details of deleted/dropped databases. We can explicitly specify the name of the database which was deleted or get the output for all databases.
use tempdb
go
declare @enable int
select top 1 @enable = convert(int,value_in_use) from sys.configurations where name = ‘default trace enabled’
if @enable = 1 –default trace is enabled
begin
declare @d1 datetime;declare @diff int;declare @indx int ;
declare @curr_tracefilename varchar(500);
declare @base_tracefilename varchar(500);
declare @temp_trace table (obj_name nvarchar(256) collate database_default,database_name nvarchar(256) collate database_default,start_time datetime,
event_class int,event_subclass int,object_type int,server_name nvarchar(256) collate database_default,login_name nvarchar(256) collate database_default,
application_name nvarchar(256) collate database_default,ddl_operation nvarchar(40) collate database_default);
select @curr_tracefilename = path from sys.traces where is_default = 1 ; set @curr_tracefilename = reverse(@curr_tracefilename)
select @indx = PATINDEX(‘%\%’, @curr_tracefilename); set @curr_tracefilename = reverse(@curr_tracefilename)
set @base_tracefilename = LEFT( @curr_tracefilename,len(@curr_tracefilename) – @indx) + ‘\log.trc’;
insert into @temp_trace select ObjectName,DatabaseName,StartTime,EventClass,EventSubClass,ObjectType,ServerName,LoginName,ApplicationName,’temp’
from ::fn_trace_gettable( @base_tracefilename, default ) where EventClass in (46,47,164) and EventSubclass = 0 and DatabaseID <> 2
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and DatabaseName = ‘SomeDB’ — <<<======Specify the name of the database here, else comment this line to get details of databases
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update @temp_trace set ddl_operation = ‘CREATE’ where event_class = 46
update @temp_trace set ddl_operation = ‘DROP’ where event_class = 47
update @temp_trace set ddl_operation = ‘ALTER’ where event_class = 164
select @d1 = min(start_time) from @temp_trace
set @diff= datediff(hh,@d1,getdate())
set @diff=@diff/24;
select start_time as Event_Time,Database_name,Server_name,Login_name,Application_name,
–SQLInstance,
DDL_Operation from @temp_trace where object_type not in (21587)
order by start_time desc
end