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Transaction Log Internals

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As you already know, every database in SQL Server has one or more transaction log files in addition to data files. Transaction logs store the information about all of the changes made in the database, and they allow SQL Server to recover databases to transactionally consistent states in case of an unexpected shut down or crash.

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Korotkevitch, D. (2014). Transaction Log Internals. In: Pro SQL Server Internals. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5963-3_29

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