Internal System Views

Internal system views are system views that make available low-level storage metadata for the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine.

The following table lists and describes the internal system views.

Important

These views are for internal use only and are subject to change. Compatibility is not guaranteed.

View name	Description
sys.system_internals_partitions	Contains a combination of rowset and hobt information. There is a one-to-one correspondence between rowset and hobt.
sys.system_internals_partition_columns	Contains both rowset and hobt column information. It also contains type and other information redundantly copied from the catalog of the relational engine.
sys.system_internals_allocation_units	Contains a row for each allocation unit in the current database.

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