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In some disaster recovery scenarios, a database needs to be restored to a point in time before a particular operation has occurred, e.g. before a user mistakenly dropped a table, ran a DELETE or UPDATE with no WHERE clause, etc. If the database is in the full recovery mode and the log backup chain is...

While the format of SQL Server transaction log is not publicly documented, there is a number of ways to view the contents of the log. This is sometimes necessary for troubleshooting and forensic purposes. One way is the DBCC LOG command. Another is fn_dblog() table-valued function. Both are undocumented...