SEP/0910

DetermininghowlongadatabasewillbeINRECOVERY(S QLServer2008)
So, your MSSQL service crashed in the middle of a big transaction? Or you bumped the service while it was rolling back some gigantic schema change (like say a column add on a 800 million row table)? Well, as you prepare your resume in preparation for the fallout from this debockle, you can use the following query to see how much time you have left. Or, I should say, how much time it thinks you have left... which seems to swing wildly up and down... microsoft math ftw.
DECLARE @DBName VARCHAR(64) = 'databasename' DECLARE @ErrorLog AS TABLE([LogDate] CHAR(24), [ProcessInfo] VARCHAR(64), [TEXT] VARCHAR(MAX)) INSERT INTO @ErrorLog EXEC sys.xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, 'Recovery of database', @DBName SELECT TOP 5 [LogDate] ,SUBSTRING([TEXT], CHARINDEX(') is ', [TEXT]) + 4,CHARINDEX(' complete (', [TEXT]) - CHARINDEX(') is ', [TEXT]) - 4) AS PercentComplete ,CAST(SUBSTRING([TEXT], CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) + 13,CHARINDEX(' seconds remain', [TEXT]) - CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) 13) AS FLOAT)/60.0 AS MinutesRemaining ,CAST(SUBSTRING([TEXT], CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) + 13,CHARINDEX(' seconds remain', [TEXT]) - CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) 13) AS FLOAT)/60.0/60.0 AS HoursRemaining ,[TEXT] FROM @ErrorLog ORDER BY [LogDate] DESC

Update - Sql Server 2012 uses a different stored procedure to read the error log:
DECLARE @DBName VARCHAR(64) = 'databasename' DECLARE @ErrorLog AS TABLE([LogDate] CHAR(24), [ProcessInfo] VARCHAR(64), [TEXT] VARCHAR(MAX)) INSERT INTO @ErrorLog EXEC master..sp_readerrorlog 0, 1, 'Recovery of database', @DBName SELECT TOP 5 [LogDate] ,SUBSTRING([TEXT], CHARINDEX(') is ', [TEXT]) + 4,CHARINDEX(' complete (', [TEXT]) - CHARINDEX(') is ', [TEXT]) - 4) AS PercentComplete ,CAST(SUBSTRING([TEXT], CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) + 13,CHARINDEX(' seconds remain', [TEXT]) - CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) 13) AS FLOAT)/60.0 AS MinutesRemaining

,CAST(SUBSTRING([TEXT], CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) + 13,CHARINDEX(' seconds remain', [TEXT]) - CHARINDEX('approximately', [TEXT]) 13) AS FLOAT)/60.0/60.0 AS HoursRemaining ,[TEXT] FROM @ErrorLog ORDER BY [LogDate] DESC