Point-in-Time Restore vs. Long-Term Retention for Failed Schema Upgrades
When managing a failed schema upgrade in Azure SQL Database, the recovery strategy depends on the discovery window of the failure. Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) provides millisecond granularity for immediate reversals, while Long-Term Retention (LTR) backups serve as a fallback for errors discovered after the standard retention period has expired. A critical