Mark S. Rasmussen - Revealing the SQL Server Magic from mdf file format Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 36 min 62 sec ✓ Published: 08-Jun-2012
Description: Think SQL Server is magical? You're right! However, there's some sense to the magic, and that's what I'll show you in this extremely deep dive session.nnThrough my work in creating OrcaMDF, an open source parser for SQL Server databases, I've learned a lot of internal details for the SQL Server database file format. In this session, I will walk you through the internal storage format of MDF files, how we might go about parsing a complete database ourselves, using nothing but a hex editor.nnI wil