Simple Recovery Model in SQL Server
Category: Reliability
What is the Simple Recovery model in SQL Server?
Simple Recovery Model is the basic recovery model available in SQL Server. With simple recovery, you can only recover up to the last full or differential backup — you can’t recover to a specific point in time.
Full Recovery mode, when managed properly, allows a database to be restored to a specific point in time.
Should we use the Simple Recovery model?
The Simple Recovery Model isn’t ideal for situations where the user can’t afford to lose data.
Think about how much data loss you can tolerate. (It’s easy to set up SQL backups this way so that you lose at most 2 minutes without any real downside.) This is called the Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
- Think about how much downtime you can tolerate in the event of a failure. This is the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
- Together, these two terms make up the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Based on these, we can now design the appropriate backup plans (full, differential, and transaction log).
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