What is transaction logging?
Transaction logging keeps a sequential record of every operation that occurs to data. If a database becomes corrupted, you can “roll back” the database to a point before it was corrupted and replay the changes from the transaction log. A single transaction is a series of changes made to a database on a server — for example, a transaction might include opening a new document, adding text, and saving the document. Transaction logging provides three main benefits: – In most situations, you no longer need to run the Fixup task to recover databases following a system failure. Excluding Fixup results in quicker server restarts, since Fixup must check every document in each database, while transaction log recovery applies or undoes only those transactions not written to disk at the time of the system failure. – Transaction logging saves processing time because it allows Domino to defer database updates to disk during periods of high server activity. Transactions are recorded sequentially in
