Transaction Log Concepts – Part 1: ACID, Write Ahead Logging, Structure of the Log (VLF’s) and the Checkpoint/Lazywriter/Eagerwriter process
I’ve put together a number of posts that will hopefully both inform and put to bed some misconceptions around the use of a Transaction Log within a database context and how SQL Server makes use of it across a number of features such as normal day-to-day transactions, Backups, Checkpoints/Lazywriter/Eagerwriter, Mirroring, Internal structure of the transaction… Read More »