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Cedric

Data Recovery Specialist/Senior Editor

"Feel free to follow me on LinkedIn. I'd like to share with you my years' experiences in solving data recovery and disk partition problems in hopes of making your life easier and enjoyable."

Experience & Education

Cedric Grantham is one of the senior editors and data recovery specialists of EaseUS who lives and works in Chengdu, China. He mainly writes articles and how-to tips about data recovery tutorials on PC and Mac. He has handled 10,000+ data recovery cases and is mainly good at data recovery of NTFS, FAT (FAT32 and ExFAT) file systems, and RAID structure reorganization of RAID 0, 5, and 10.

Experience

Cedric Grantham has been with the EaseUS team for more than 10 years and is currently a senior website editor and data recovery engineer. He has helped tens of thousands of users solve the problems encountered in data recovery through remote assistance, such as users who cannot successfully recover data with recovery software, need to repair damaged partitions and systems, and reorganize RAID structures to restore data, etc. Together with the data recovery team members, he researched and established a variety of special data loss scenarios and manual data recovery solutions.


Usually, when using manual recovery to help users solve partition problems, it mainly analyzes the partition and file system structure of the device, finds out the damaged or overwritten file system information, and reversely calculates the damaged or overwritten information through the important parameters of the file system, so as to achieve The purpose of repairing partitions or repairing file directory structure. Similarly, when solving the RAID reorganization problem, it is necessary to analyze the key parameters of the RAID structure on all disks, calculate the original RAID structure information, realize the RAID reorganization, and restore the original RAID data.

Education
Cedric graduated in Software Engineering with an undergraduate degree. Before he became a qualified editor, he had completed systematic technical article writing. Years of experience accumulation allow him to easily write high-quality articles that are helpful to users.
Life
At work, Cedric likes to write a lot of problem-solving articles to help people find solutions. In life, he is a passionate person about many things. He likes music (rock and light music), singing, and mountain climbing. He spends most spare time with family and friends.

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MS SQL Recovery Software to Recover MDF/NDF File

The MDF or NDF files may get deleted, damaged or inaccessible due to various matters, such as hardware problem, bugs in SQL Server, OS malfunction, unexpected system shutdown, virus attacks, etc., which is a serious problem for SQL users. If you happen to encounter such an issue, you can use EaseUS MS SQL Recovery to help you recover MDF or NDF file with ease.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

MS SQL Repair Tool | Repair Corrupted MDF/NDF File

SQL database may corrupt due to various reasons. When SQL corruption happens, you will need an SQL repair tool to fix it. EaseUS SQL Recovery is a professional MS SQL repair tool that allows you to repair MDF/NDF files and all corrupted SQL server database components.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

SQL Suspect Mode Fix | How to Recover SQL Database from Suspect Mode

The Suspect Mode is one of the states of SQL Server database. When you see your database is marked as Suspect, you can not access your database unless you recover your MS SQL database from the Suspect Mode to Normal. Given that, we will show you how to recover SQL database from the Suspect Mode in detail and how to repair your database with EaseUS SQL recovery tool if the fix fails.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

How to Export MS SQL Server Database to CSV File

If you want to export MS SQL server database to CSV but don't know how to do it, take it easy. You can use the Import and Export Wizard of SQL Server Management Studio to do it manually.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

[Fixed] SQL Error 945 | Database Cannot Be Opened due to Inaccessible Files

SQL error 945, Database cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space, is one of the common SQL Server errors that marks a SQL database failure. Luckily, you can cope with SQL error 945 by adjusting settings or using the SQL Recovery Tool. Carry out the best-suited solution and fix SQL error 945 immediately.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

Restore Database from MDF and LDF Files in SQL Server 2017/2014/2012

You can restore database from MDF and LDF files in SQL Server 2017, 2014, 2012 in three ways when your SQL Server goes wrong or when you install a new SQL server. You can make it through SQL Server Management Studio, T-SQL, or using EaseUS MS SQL Recovery.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

How to Use DBCC CHECKDB Repair Options to Repair Database

CHECKDB repair options are frequently used in SQL Server attempting to solve database-related errors. To help you have a better understanding of DBCC CHECKDB, we will show you what CHECKDB repair is and how to use it. If there is an error reported, you can use EaseUS MS SQL Recovery software to repair your database without data loss.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

How to Export Data from SQL Server to Excel Automatically

There are several ways to export SQL Server data to Excel file. In this article, two ways to export data from SQL Server to Excel are provided to you. You can export data from SQL server to excel automatically with step by step guides.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

SQL to XML | How to Export Data from SQL Server to XML

Whether you want to output the query results in SQL to XML or attempt to export the data in a SQL Server database to the XML file, you can find the way to make it here. With the FOR XML clause, you can return the result of a query to XML. With SQL Server Management Studio, you can save your SQL database as CSV and then you can convert the database files to XML, PDF or other formats as you like.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

How to Fix A Corrupted SQL Server Transaction Log File

A corrupted transaction log file (.ldf) may result from any errors, such as unexpected system shutdown, hard drive problems, virus attack, etc. When you happen to meet this issue, you can try methods here to fix log file corruption in SQL Server. If you still fail and can't access the MDF file, you can try EaseUS MS SQL Recovery to help you read and export data in MDF, so that the SQL can work normally.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

How to Rollback DROP/TRUNCATE Table in SQL Server

Can you rollback TRUNCATE TABLE in the SQL server? Can drop be rolled back? Here we will show you what drop/truncate table is and how to rollback drop/truncate in MSSQL Server.

Cedric   |   Oct 29, 2026

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