is there documenation on format of transaction log entries

I searched the forums and SQL 2005 book online to see if Microsoft provides documentation on the format of transaction log entries. I could not find any...

Will Microsoft provides this documentation? It will also be nice if Microsoft will provide utilities to help us read content of transaction logs (online or backup file)? This will be quite helpful for DBAs.

Oracle provides a FREE utility called log miner... This tool is quite helpful. I know there are vendors that sell utilities to process transaction logs ( Log Explorer). I would like more flexibility.

If Microsoft does not provide documentation or utilities in SQL 2005, what would be the reasons? These things can help DBAs, thus will help Microsoft sell SQL 2005.

Thanks.

Microsoft does not provide the format of its files to everyone. Microsoft does work with third party vendors to provide additional functionality (as you mentioned).

Please work with the third party vendors to get more features and the flexibility that you want.

Thank you,
Mark Wistrom