The ‘Suspect’ mode of the SQL database indicates that the recovery process has started but failed to complete. The database goes into suspect mode if the primary data file is damaged or the database ...

SQL database in suspect mode: SQL database suspect mode is a frequent issue DBAs face due to damage in the primary file group file, which stops the database recovery during SQL Server startup. A SQL ...

Sometimes that requires going back to basic research, or in this case to a 2019 Microsoft Research paper entitled “Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database”. The paper is fascinating ...

Many of the features that Microsoft has announced have been in preview or even GA in Azure SQL Database ... provide high availability and disaster recovery. However, when failures happen, like ...