Author Archives: Anderson Rangel

Understanding Virtual Log Files (VLF)

Understanding Virtual Log Files (VLF)

Unmanaged Virtual Log Files are one of the most frequent issues I find on my client’s environments and since there is a lot of misconceptions around this topic, my intention with this article is to create an understanding about how and why VLFs get created, simulate a VLF count growth and demonstrate how we can monitor it and more importantly how can we fix it.