How the data stores in a page?



How the data stores in a page?..

Answer / arunyadav007

The fundamental unit of data storage in SQL Server in the
page. The disk space allocated to a data file (.mdf
or, .ndf) in a database is logically divided into pages
numbered form ā€œ0ā€ to ā€˜nā€™. Disk I/O operation are performed
at page level.
In SQL server, the page is 8 kb. This means SQL Server
database have 128 pages per MB. Each page begins with a 96
byte header. That is used to store system information about
the page.
Page types used in the data files of the SQL Server
database.
1.) Data
2.) Index
3.) Text image
4.) Global allocation map, shared global allocation map
5.) Page free space.
6.) Index allocation map
7.) Bulk changed map
8.) Differential changed map
** Maximum amount of data and overload that is contained in
single row on a page is 8060 bytes ()8Kb.

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