Hey, just caught wind of some timely stuff going on at PASS.  Had my trusty 'Google alert' email me, set to ring on anything about the function fn_dblog.

Kalen Delaney, the sql internals extraordinaire, who brought us the book called Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine, was in good form with her session on 'Care and Feeding of the Transaction Log'  She went over the internals of the transaction log, and using the undocumented functions DBCC LogInfo, as well as the less resource intensive flexible fn_dblog function, to read and translate the transaction log. 

In my own presentation on DB Forensics, I spoke at length on the Transaction Log, based on some of the materials in Ms. Delaney's book.

Here is one attendee who blogged about the t-log session, http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47069

It was noted that one could talk about the transaction log for the whole day.  Indeed!

So, those of you who attended the session at PASS, I am challenging you to my DB Audit Challenge and invite you to solve the t-log puzzle.

I posted some hints and clues on my earlier blog here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/pearlknows/archive/2009/11/03/db-audit-challenge-1-part-ii-get-a-clue.aspx

Is there anyone out there that's up to the challenge? (Ms. Delaney and other MVP's excluded)