SQL Internals Viewer - looking into the SQL Server storage engine

Danny Gould, created a tool to graphically display database storage internals, and seeing how data is physically allocated, organised and stored - the SQL Internals Viewer.

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SQL Internals Viewer

AND, with some interesting benefits:

  • Encode and Find - to encode a value to a particular data type and then search for it in the page
  • SQL Server 2008 Page and Row Compression
  • Key - Clicking on an item on the Key will highlight it on the Allocation Map

Key

  • Physical Stats nodes - information about sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats

Physical Stats nodes

  • SQL Editor - includes a view on the Transaction Log
  • ... and more!

All things considered - it`s a very, very nice tool!

For more information, visit http://www.sqlinternalsviewer.com/.

CU
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