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                                         Jude_Aj 
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                                             Posted - 2009-02-26 : 10:13:20
                                            
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                                            | Hi,   I have been studying about the SQL server 2000 storage engine.I was traversing the record of a tables(syscolumns).I did a dbcc page. One of the records was as follows :-30002e00 59ed607f 38003800 04000a00  0...Y.`.8.8.....01000400 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................00000100 ffff0000 00002000 2000[1500]  .......... . ...00000a01 00410065 006d0070 00690064  .....A.e.m.p.i.d00b85921notice that i have marked 1500 in "[ ]"heres the same rec viewed in hex editor30002E00 59ED607F 38003800 04000A0001000400 00000000 00000000 0000000000000100 FFFF0000 00002000 2000[1502]00000A01 00410065 006D0070 0069006400B85921here if u notice the values 1500 in  dbcc page dump is 1502 in hex editor.Can anybody help me understand this?Thanks... | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     Jude_Aj 
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                                            Posted - 2009-03-02 : 02:31:04
                                          
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                                          This not only instance where there was a mismatch of a particular bytein a record viewed in hex edit, from that viewed in dbcc page command(hex dump). Majority of the record viewed in hex editor are identical to that viewed using dbcc page command . Its just that there a few exceptions and i fail to understand why?   | 
                                         
                                        
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