Windows Services Recovery for SQL Server

Recently, I ran into an issue after applying a few security updates and subsequent reboots: a number of the SQL services did not start successfully. After running the following script, I've had success with SQL services starting as expected after reboot. It's basically a built-in service start retry. You can read more on Microsoft's docs page or for a visual guide, check out Ibrahim Soliman's blog.

In this case, I used a script instead of the GUI because the GUI is limited. In the script above, I can specify exact times per retry whereas in the GUI I cannot.

Also, I can't believe I never noticed this tab for years, until a friend pointed it out. It's so useful 😁