Page Types

There are eight page types in SQL Server, as listed in Table 30.3.

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TABLE 30.3 Page Types

All pages, regardless of type, have a similar layout. They all have a page header, which is 96 bytes, and a body, which consequently is 8,096 bytes. The page layout is shown in Figure 30.1.

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FIGURE 30.1 SQL Server page layout.

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