The Curious Case of… log generated during a DROP TABLE


(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.)

Several times last week I was in discussions about the amount of log that’s generated during a DROP TABLE of a very large table. In both cases people were concerned about the amount of log being sent to a synchronous Availability Group replica and whether it would slow