Managing the Store & DAG: EXCERPT from Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out

Transaction logs

Transaction logs are the basic mechanism to capture and record transactions that occur for an ESE database. ESE uses a dual-phase commit for transactions to meet the Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) test. A transaction is defined as a series of database page modifications that ESE considers a single logical unit. All the modifications must be permanently saved before a transaction is complete and held in the database. For example, the arrival of a new message in a user’s inbox is represented by a number of page modifications. The message header might occupy one page, the contents could be held on other pages, and the message might be shared with a number of users, including the originator, so it appears ...