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About
Open source project.
A tool for looking into the SQL Server storage engine.
Shows how the data is physically allocated, organized and
stored.
Available for SSMS 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2.
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SSMS Add-In
Integration
with SSMS (SQL Server Management
Studio):
The application is installed as a SSMS add-in.
Internals information integrated into the Object Explorer.
Transaction Log viewer integrated into the Query Results.
Allocation Map.
Displays the physical layout of tables and indexes.
Displays PFS status.
Overlay pages in the Buffer Pool.
Page Viewer.
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SSMS Add-In
Integration
with SSMS (SQL Server Management
Studio):
Displays Data pages including forwarding records and sparse
columns.
Displays Index pages.
Displays allocation pages (IAM, GAM, SGAM, DCM, and BCM
pages).
Displays pages with both row and page compression
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Refresh…
Page 0: Header.
Page 1: The first Page Free Space (PFS).
Page 2: The first Global Allocation Map (GAM).
Page 3: The first Shared GAM (SGAM)
Page 4: Unused in 2005+
Page 5: Unused in 2005+
Page 6: The first DIFF map page
Page 7: The first Minimally Logged MAP (ML).