InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comMon, 20 May 2013 05:55:41 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1404121-391-1.aspxRecovery model has no effect at all on recovery times.Recovery time is a factor of how much needs to be undone or redone at startup. If it's taking forever, you likely had a large uncommitted transaction at time of shutdown or a large transaction that had committed but not yet written to the data file, possibly also VLF fragmentation.Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:17:33 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1404121-391-1.aspxHi.I have a database thats just undergone a very large insert into a table. The instance was restarted and now the database is in recovery mode.The database is in simple mode.I would have assumed that once the insert was done and commited the log would checkpoint itself soon after and there would be no long recovery. can anyone explain where my thinking on this might be wrong?Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:08:10 GMTjames marriot