Chapter 8. Special storage
Kalen Delaney
Earlier chapters discussed the storage of “regular rows” for both data and index information. (Chapter 7 also looked at a completely different way of storing indexes: using columnstores, which aren’t stored in rows at all.) Chapter 6 explained that regular rows are in a format called FixedVar. SQL Server provides ways of storing data in another format, called Column Descriptor (CD). It also can store special values in either the FixedVar or CD format that don’t fit on the regular 8 KB pages.
This chapter describes data that exceeds the typical row size limitations and is stored as either row-overflow or Large Object (LOB) data. You’ll learn about two additional methods for storing data on the actual data ...
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