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Main Application Window

The main application window has the following components:

  • Allocation Map
  • Key
  • Database Browser
  • SQL Editor

The main application window has two splitters, one between the Allocation Map and Database Browser/Key that splits vertically, and one between the Database Browser and Key that splits horizontally. The splitter between the Allocation Map and Database Browser/Key moves in increments of Extents (8 pages).

Main Application Window

Menu Bar and Toolbar

The current database can be changed using the Databases drop down list.

Go to page

A page can be opened by typing a page address in the Go to page text box and then pressing the Enter key. A page address can be entered in the format (file id:page id) or just file id: page id.

Right clicking on the Go to page: text box displays the following Copy menu:

Copy menu

Copy simply copies the address to the Clipboard.

The other options under Copy DBCC PAGE command to Clipboard script a DBCC PAGE command with the various dump styles to the Clipboard.

For example Option 3 – Row interpretation will produce:

-- Generated by SQL Internals Viewer
DBCC TRACEON(3604)
DBCC PAGE('tempdb',1,100,3)
GO

Other menu items are discussed in further sections.

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