On-Disk Data Structures in SQL Server

Just some links to read.  Carefully.  There's a lot of information.  These posts were made by Paul S. Randal on www.sqlskills.com.  I'll do a more thorough job of weeding out information when I'm not strapped for time.

• Inside the Storage Engine: Anatomy of a record
• Inside the Storage Engine: Anatomy of a page
• Inside the Storage Engine: Anatomy of an extent
• Inside the Storage Engine: IAM pages, IAM chains, and allocation units
• Inside The Storage Engine: GAM, SGAM, PFS and other allocation maps
• Search Engine Q&A #20: Boot pages, and boot page corruption
• Search Engine Q&A #21: File header pages, and file header corruption