• Stuart Davies (9/21/2009)


    OK - so really numpty time - the results are attached. What does this tell me?

    this link might shed a bit more information for you.

    http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1225

    From my point of view, I use it to find out how much of the log file is in use and how much has already been flushed to disk. in theory you could use it on your user databases to decide on log file usage and manipulation, and when you might want to re-schedule log backups.

    http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp

    This is a very good article and explains about the fact that having lots of rows returned by using dbcc loginfo can have a performance hit, and explains how to resolve it.

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