Sep 14, 2018 · One way to end up with a database that is in "Recovery Pending" state, is in the context of restoring a backup of an encrypted database (encrypted with TDE) on a new SQL Server instance. You restored the backup of the master key on the new SQL Server instance, You recreated the encryption certificate on the new SQL Server instance,

Sep 16, 2016 · As MSDN states: the database will automatically become online if the recovery succeeds. If the recovery fails, the database will become suspect. The database is unavailable. So eventually it will be online or in SUSPECT. If it takes too long to recover you could start SQL Server without going through recovery, I believe there's a Trace Flag for ...

Oct 12, 2019 · This means the files are opened and recovery is started. After sometime, you should see phase 1. Recovery of database ‘TestMe’ (28) is 0% complete (approximately 37 seconds remain). Phase 1 of 3. This is an informational message only. No user action is required. Recovery of database ‘TestMe’ (28) is 3% complete (approximately 36 seconds ...

Feb 13, 2009 · The SQL Server whenever it restarts all the databases goes into the recovery mode. In this state the database comes back in online mode and has a consistent state. It contains three sub phases ...

Feb 24, 2021 · Opened up a log viewer that shows the recovery process of the database: 'Recovery of database 'MyDatabase' (10) is 55% complete (approximately 1066 seconds remain)' Today I learned a valuable lesson about for-each loops in …

Jul 20, 2021 · Recovery Pending – If the SQL Server knows that database recovery needs to be run but something is preventing it from starting, the Server marks the db in ‘Recovery Pending’ state. This is different from the SUSPECT state because it cannot be said that recovery is going to fail – it just hasn’t started yet.

Sep 28, 2012 · Restore a backup copy of your database onto a different server. This will confirm whether it is a problem within your database or the SQL Server/machine. After step #4, #5, and #6, run your queries again to see if you can cause the database to go into Recovery mode.

Feb 17, 2016 · Restart the SQL Server instance hosting the secondary replica. This will initiate recovery on all databases including availability group databases, and so long as SQL Server can access all the database files, the availability group database affected should recover successfully and resume synchronization with the primary replica.

The 'NORECOVERY' options, basically tells the SQL Server that the database is waiting for more restore files (could be a DIFF file and LOG file and, could include tail-log backup file, if possible). The 'RECOVERY' options, finish all transactions and let the database ready to perform transactions. So:

Dec 17, 2010 · For me, with a database in "Recovery Pending" and a server low on disk space (the likely cause of the "pending"), stopping SQL Server, deleting the mdf and ldf, then a restart was the only way forward. Using Detach Database would not work for me with a database in recovery pending state. –