Tag: Partition

• Partition Boundaries – Left or Right: That is the Question

  

  2014-07-16 - Fundamentals, General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  Do you know the difference between a RANGE LEFT and a RANGE RIGHT partition function? Read on and discover a unique query to determine the actual partition a row is stored in. With this query you can quickly confirm your RANGE-assumption or find out where you got it wrong.

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• The Page Header (A Storage Wednesday Post)

  

  2014-02-19 - General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  SQL Server organizes databases in chunks of 8192 bytes, called pages. Each page starts out with 96 byte of meta-information – the page header. Read on to see what kind of information is stored in this special area.

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