What Is Log Writer in Sql Server

When a SQL Server session waits on the WRITELOG wait type, it is waiting to write the contents of the log cache to disk where the transaction log is stored. … Data is written to the log cache which is a segment of memory used to record data that will be used for rolling back the transaction or be written to the log file.

What is SQL Server log file used for?

The SQL Server transaction log file is used to write a record for each data modification operation, including an image of the data before and after the modification process.

What is Log_reuse_wait_desc?

Firstly, what is log_reuse_wait_desc? It’s a field in sys. databases that you can use to determine why the transaction log isn’t clearing (a.k.a truncating) correctly.

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