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Interrogating the Transaction Log

Or, The Transaction Log: Why You Can’t Run Your Database Without It. Interrogating the Transaction Log. What We’ll Cover. ACID Properties Transactions Write-ahead Logging Log Space Reservation Reading the Log with fn_dblog Identifying Active Transactions

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Interrogating the Transaction Log

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  1. Or, The Transaction Log: Why You Can’t Run Your Database Without It Interrogating the Transaction Log

  2. What We’ll Cover • ACID Properties • Transactions • Write-ahead Logging • Log Space Reservation • Reading the Log with fn_dblog • Identifying Active Transactions • Finding Log Records Associated with Active Transactions

  3. Database 101 - ACID Properties • Atomicity • Consistency • Isolation • Durability

  4. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

  5. Transactions and Write-Ahead Logging • What is a transaction? • Explicit v. Implicit Transactions • Write-ahead logging • Roll back and roll forward

  6. Log Space Reservation • SQL Server uses log space for transaction records • Additional space is reserved for potential rollback activity • Committed transaction releases reserved space

  7. Log Space Reservation Demo • SMALLER TRANSACTIONS ARE BETTER!

  8. Reading the Transaction Log • Table-based function that allows the transaction log to be read • Takes 2 parameters, starting and ending log sequence numbers (LSN) • SELECT * FROM fn_dblog(NULL,NULL)returns the contents of the log

  9. fn_dblog demo

  10. sys.dm_tran_database_transactions • Returns information about active transactions • Results contain the begin and end LSN for each transaction

  11. Finding Log Records for Active Transactions – Attempt #1 • Both the DMV and function contain a transaction_id • The DMV id is hexadecimal and the function id is decimal, so converting one of them should work, right?

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  13. Finding Log Records for Active Transactions – Failed Attempt #1 • Converting the transaction IDs from either source did not result in a match • After several attempts to make it work (octal, double and add 30, multiply by 9/5 and add 32) I wrote Paul Randal • His response? “They don’t match. It’s annoying.”

  14. Finding Log Records for Active Transactions – Attempt #2 • Both the DMV and the function contain begin and end LSNs • The function returns colon-delimited hex LSNs (0000001a:000027a5:0001) • The DMV returns a decimal value (26000001014900001)

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