October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1072 pages
24h 21m
English
Two DBCC commands come in very handy when debugging transaction-related problems. The first is DBCC OPENTRAN. It allows you to retrieve the oldest active transaction in a database. Since only the inactive portion of a log is backed up and truncated, a malevolent or zombie transaction can cause the log to fill prematurely. You can use DBCC OPENTRAN to identify the offending process so that it may be terminated if necessary. Listing 13.12 shows an example.
DBCC OPENTRAN(pubs)
Transaction information for database 'pubs'.
Oldest active transaction:
SPID (server process ID) : 15
UID (user ID) : 1
Name : user_transaction
LSN : (57:376:596)
Start time : Aug 5 1999 5:54:46:713AM
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