Internals Viewer Update – Latest Build 20081102.1
I’ve just uploaded the latest build of Internals Viewer.
Now it’s got the following features:
- Integration with SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) 2005 and 2008
- The application is installed as a SSMS add-in
- Internals information integrated into the Object Explorer
- Transaction Log viewer integrated into the Query Results
- Allocation Map
- Displays the physical layout of tables and indexes
- Displays PFS status
- Overlay pages in the Buffer Pool
- Page Viewer
- Displays Data Pages including forwarding records and sparse columns
- Displays allocation pages (IAM, GAM, SGAM, DCM, and BCM pages)
- LOB data types and row overflow decoding
(New to this release)
If you’re interested in how any of it works all of the source code is available from CodePlex.
Also, if you liked the SSMS Allocation Add-in please vote for it as part of the SQL Heroes competition here.