Tag: Catalog View

• The Allocation Unit

  

  2014-03-26 - DMVs & CVs, General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  SQL Server groups all pages that belong to a single partition of a single index or heap into logical units. These units are called allocation units. Read on to learn about the different types of allocation units and discover how to identify the allocation units belonging to a table.

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• How to identify active database permissions using sys.database_permissions

  

  2014-02-22 - DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  The sys.database_permissions catalog view can be used to identify active database permissions that are defined in the current database. Read on to find out how to interpret the output of this catalog view.

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