The Biggest Logging Anti-Pattern

4 commentsWritten on March 16th, 2010 by
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  • Mario Pareja

    Judging by the file path, isn’t this a transaction log rather than a debug log? You would find something similar to this in your SQL Server data files.

  • Stef Van Dessel

    The log file is encrypted and the format is not publicly available. The files are just used by DTS to manage transactions and aren’t really meant for viewing outside of what the service itself reads and uses.

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    @Mario

    that’s certainly possible, though that file really isn’t very big on my machine

    that path also has a Trace folder which contains more (even smaller) logfiles… they’re all binary as well

    it’s just frustrating to see that when you are hoping for something that could help you debug an issue :)

  • Danny

    This could actually just be the start of your problems, as I have translated the log file file, which reads, “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.

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