• Recovery 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.

    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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