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When a table is created, how is its storage allocated and managed on disk?
Tests whether you know storage is organized into fixed-size pages/blocks grouped into extents, with the DB engine allocating new pages as rows are inserted -- and that understanding this explains why fragmentation and page splits affect performance over time.
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