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SQL Server: OrcaMDF


OrcaMDF Row Compression Support

Written on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF, SQL Server: Compression

Announcing row compression support for OrcaMDF.

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The Anatomy of Row & Page Compressed Integers

Written on Monday, January 30, 2012 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Internals, SQL Server: OrcaMDF, SQL Server: Compression

How are integers stored on disk when using row or page compression?

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The Anatomy of Vardecimals

Written on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Internals, SQL Server: OrcaMDF, SQL Server: Vardecimal

How are vardecimals stored on disk? Here's a deep dive explanation.

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Automated Testing of OrcaMDF Against Multiple SQL Server Versions

Written on Monday, November 28, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in Development: .NET, SQL Server: OrcaMDF, Development: Testing

See how I test OrcaMDF automatically against multiple versions of SQL Server.

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OrcaMDF Studio Release + Feature Recap

Written on Friday, November 25, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Just released OrcaMDF Studio - a UI on top of OrcaMDF, allowing you to parse SQL Server database files.

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OrcaMDF Now Exposes Metadata Through System DMVs

Written on Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF

See how OrcaMDF allows you to query the standard SQL Server DMVs.

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OrcaMDF Now Supports Databases With Multiple Data Files

Written on Monday, October 24, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Announcing that OrcaMDF now supports databases with multiple data files.

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OrcaMDF Feature Recap

Written on Saturday, September 10, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Since OrcaMDF was introduced in May 2011, a lot has happened. This is a recap of the currently supported features.

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Avoiding regressions in OrcaMDF by system testing

Written on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in Development: .NET, SQL Server: OrcaMDF, Development: Testing

Learn how OrcaMDF utilizes system testing to avoid regressions between commits.

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Checking which database is stored in a detached mdf file

Written on Thursday, May 19, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in Development: .NET, SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Learn how, using OrcaMDF we can figure out which database is stored in a deattached MDF file.

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Reading bits in OrcaMDF

Written on Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Internals, SQL Server: Data Types, SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Learn how bits are stored internally in SQL Server. In this post I'll also show how OrcaMDF parses bits from records.

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Parsing dates in OrcaMDF

Written on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Internals, SQL Server: Data Types, SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Learn how SQL Server data types like date, datetime and smalldatetime are stored internally. In this post I'll also show how OrcaMDF parses these types.

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Implementing data types in OrcaMDF

Written on Thursday, May 05, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Learn how OrcaMDF implements data type parsing as well as how to implement your own data type parser.

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Introducing OrcaMDF

Written on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 by Mark S. Rasmussen in SQL Server: Internals, SQL Server: OrcaMDF

Learn about OrcaMDF, the open source library for parsing SQL Server MDF files, by Mark S. Rasmussen.

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