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title: "What are Page Splits?"  
description: "What are Page Splits?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2013-12-29  
updated: 2020-09-01  
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category: "c#"  
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# What are Page Splits?

Pages are contained in extent. Every extent will have around eight data pages. But all the eight data pages are not created at once; they are created depending on data demand. So when a page becomes full it creates a new page, this process is called as “Page Split”.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

Pages are contained in extent. Every extent will have around eight data pages. But all the eight data pages are not created at once; they are created depending on data demand. So when a page becomes full it creates a new page, this process is called as “Page Split”.


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