Saturday, January 03, 2009

Internals Viewer for SQL Server - Home

 

Project Description
Internals Viewer is a tool for looking into the SQL Server storage engine and seeing how data is physically allocated, organised and stored.
All sorts of tasks performed by a DBA or developer can benefit greatly from knowledge of what the storage engine is doing and how it works
Note There was a problem with the first release of Beta 2 20081228. If no add-in is visible please follow the instructions in Troubleshooting.
User Guide
Troubleshooting
Features

  • Integration with SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) 2005 and 2008
    • The application is installed as a SSMS add-in
    • Internals information integrated into the Object Explorer
    • Transaction Log viewer integrated into the Query Results
  • Allocation Map
    • Displays the physical layout of tables and indexes
    • Displays PFS status
    • Overlay pages in the Buffer Pool
  • Page Viewer
    • Displays Data pages including forwarding records and sparse columns
    • Displays Index pages
    • Displays allocation pages (IAM, GAM, SGAM, DCM, and BCM pages)
    • Displays pages with SQL Server 2008 row and page compression

Internals Viewer for SQL Server - Home

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