Ver el Log de Transacciones en SQLServer

View Transaction Log
Alexander Chigrik
chigrik@mssqlcity.com

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It's not necessary to view the SQL Server transaction log, but if you are a
DBA, it may be useful to resolve some problems. It may be useful for
understanding the internal SQL Server architecture too.


SQL Server 6.5
Every database contains the syslogs system table in SQL Server 6.5. This
table contains the transaction log, and is used by SQL Server for recovery
and roll forward. You cannot modify syslogs system table manually.

This is from SQL Server Books Online (the syslogs table's columns):

Column Datatype Description

xactid binary(6) Transaction ID
op tinyint Update-operation number

So, to view the transaction log you can use the following select statement:

SELECT xactid AS TRAN_ID, op AS LOG_RECORD FROM syslogs

There are some op values:

op = 0 - BEGIN TRANSACTION
op = 4 - Insert Row
op = 5 - Delete Row
op = 9 - Modify Row
op = 30 - END TRANSACTION


SQL Server 7.0/2000
There is no syslogs system table in SQL Server 7.0/2000. The database log is
now an operating system file. So, this SQL statement:

SELECT xactid AS TRAN_ID, op AS LOG_RECORD FROM syslogs

will return error:

Server: Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Invalid object name 'syslogs'.

You can use the following undocumented command in this case:

DBCC log ( {dbid|dbname}, [, type={0|1|2|3|4}] )

PARAMETERS:
Dbid or dbname - Enter either the dbid or the name of the database in
question.

type - is the type of output:

0 - minimum information (operation, context, transaction id)

1 - more information (plus flags, tags, row length)

2 - very detailed information (plus object name, index name, page id, slot
id)

3 - full information about each operation

4 - full information about each operation plus hexadecimal dump of the
current transaction log's row.

by default type = 0

To view the transaction log for the master database, you can use the
following command:

DBCC log (master)