What do you Know about the SQL Server Data pages ?
SQL Server page is 8K so remember when you format your hard disk. Create it in a 64K clusters for the best performance. Let’s no more about the SQL Page
· 96 Bytes for the page Header
· 8096 for the page rows with a limits 8060 bytes Only for rows.
· 2 bytes in the end of the page determine the location of each Row inside the page
· Rows aren’t sorted inside the page but the pointers for it sorted according to the index.
· When SQL writes the rows if the remaining of the page won’t fit the whole row, SQL leaves this page and start a new page.
I hope this may help you with your next SQL installation