Speaking of the database engine, the SQL Server development team continues to push for even better performance capabilities. For example, SQL Server 2019 has a new recovery feature called Accelerated ...

Accelerated database recovery changes this process by implementing a version store to allow transactions to be played back much faster after a restore or server restart.

Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) is currently available in public preview in Azure SQL Database, as well as Azure SQL Data Warehouse.