Have you ever been on call during weekends to find that your SQL Server won't start up after a service pack? Or came in the office in the morning and as soon as you stepped through people starting shouting at you because their application stopped working?

In this session I will walk you trough some real customer cases I worked on in the past 10 years. And specifically restore cases where the database or instance failed to come online. I will show you the error, the suspected issue according to the customer making the call and walk you through how to troubleshoot and find the actual issue.

After this session you will walk away with just that bit more knowledge to confidently restore your database or instance when needed.

This session is very demo heavy and depending on the available session length can have more or less demos. The recommended session length is 60-75 minutes. However, anything from 45-90 minutes is possible.