After experiencing weekly CDC failures caused by transaction log issues and logs suddenly chewing up disk space, I found myself repeatedly investigating the same questions: Why is the log so large?

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What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

enq: AW – AW$ table lock Allows global access synchronization to the AW$ table (analytical workplace tables used in OLAP option) enq: AW – AW generation lock Gives in-use generation state for a ...