Page Types

There are eight page types in SQL Server, as listed in Table 34.3.

Table 34.3 Page Types

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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 34.1.

Figure 34.1 SQL Server page layout.

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