So I was a bit afraid of the performance impact of logging to the database in NLog (someone else chose to do that). Looked up the code and yes, it's doing an outside-of-transaction insert for every single log message. Now outside-of-transaction just means in-implicit-transactions so I really really hope there won't be too much logging as this is going to be hell on performance. Trust me, I've made that mistake myself, relational databases are NOT good for massive amounts of write transactions.