Page Anatomy – Part 2

I am going continue my series of articles describing how information is stored and organized in a Microsoft SQL Server database. Today, I am going to talk about the Database Boot Page. All of the information is a gleamed from SQL Server 2008 Internals book by Kalen Delaney. If it is not on your bookshelf, I suggest you go out and by a copy. The online MCM training videos from Paul Randal are also an excellent resource. A single page (8K) is the smallest unit in which SQL Server allocates…