My database is down and I cannot restore. What now?

Recovery without any backup is normally not supported; however, Oracle Consulting can sometimes extract data from an Offline database using a utility called DUL (Disk Unload).

This utility reads data in the data files and unloads it into SQL*Loader or export dump files.
DUL does not care about rollback segments, corrupted blocks etc. and can thus not guarantee that the data is not logically corrupt

It is intended as an absolute last resort and will most likely cost your company a lot of money!

How to fix: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

Open your terminal and type mysql -u root -p Enter your password. Hopefully your MySQL is logged in now.