• Nope. Simple recovery is not the reason for the high recovery time. You either had huge uncommitted transactions when the DB shut down or you have severe log fragmentation or both.

    Only thing you can do at this point is wait.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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