October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
24h 5m
English
Brad M. McGehee
SQL Server can experience various types of bottlenecks that can negatively affect its performance. In this chapter, I’ll focus on a specific and often overlooked bottleneck: the transaction log. I’ll briefly describe how the transaction log works, the factors that can contribute to it being a bottleneck, how to determine if you have a transaction log bottleneck, and best practices you can employ to help prevent future bottlenecks or to correct existing bottlenecks.
To understand how the transaction log can become a bottleneck for SQL Server, let’s first take a brief look at how the transaction log works. The following ...
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