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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals

by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
30h 30m
English
Microsoft Press
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Allocation Consistency Checks

These checks verify the contents of and relationships between the various structures that track page and extent allocations in the database. The structures involved are as follows:

  • PFS pages, which track the allocation status of individual pages within a 64-MB section of a data file (a PFS interval)

  • GAM pages, which track the allocation status of all extents within a 4-GB section of a data file (a GAM interval)

  • SGAM pages, which track all mixed extents that have at least one page available for allocation with a GAM interval

  • IAM pages, which track all pages and extents allocated to an allocation unit from a GAM interval

  • IAM chains, which are a linked-list of all IAM pages for an allocation unit (and hence track all pages ...

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