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• Deletes that Split Pages and Forwarded Ghosts

  Can DELETE operations cause pages to split?  Yes.  It sounds counter-intuitive on the face of it; deleting rows frees up space on a page, and page splitting occurs when a page needs additional space.  Nevertheless, there are circumstances Read More... Posted Friday, August 31, 2012 6:09 AM by Paul White | 11 Comments Filed under: Deletes, Page Splits, Performance, Undocumented, Updates