Something went wrong during a backup. The backup application made a backup of a database and attached the backup, on a mounting point, to run a verify.
After running the verify it should have removed the attached database. That went wrong. It has removed the mounting point. The result is that I have an additional database, with a unknown name, that wants to use database files that cannot be found.
How can I delete this “ghost” database? I can select the database using Object explorer. When I select delete, and press OK it is removed from the object Explorer. When I press F5 it is back.
The SQL server logging shows that the database has been dropped without errors. For every I time used object explorer to delete the database. Running a query that performs a drop has the same effect.
How do I get rid of this database that isn’t a real database and causes failing maintenance jobs on SQL Server 2008 R2?