• Craig Farrell (10/5/2010)


    I got it right, but a question regarding dedicated extents. I know page splits will happen, etc etc, but does an extent stay compact for a range of data, or will it split out of the extent and return to it with page pointers?

    If you ask what I think you ask, then the answer is that, if a page has to be split, the new page will almost certainly be allocate in a different extent.


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