SQL Server: Database stuck in “Restoring” state

Question

I backed up a database:

BACKUP DATABASE MyDatabase
TO DISK = \'MyDatabase.bak\'
WITH INIT --overwrite existing

And then tried to restore it

Answer 1

I had a similar incident with stopping a log shipping secondary server. After the command to remove the server from log shipping and stopped the log shipping from primary server the database on secondary server got stuck in restoring status after the command

RESTORE DATABASE  WITH RECOVERY

The database messages:

RESTORE DATABASE successfully processed 0 pages in 18.530 seconds (0.000 MB/sec).

The database was usable again after those 18 seconds.