Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER

I&rsquo;ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one of my favorite rabbit holes is revisiting Paul Randal&rsquo;s series on file header pages . If you haven&rsquo;t read it, go do that now. It covers what file header pages are, what they contain, and what happens when they corrupt. This post takes that concept and runs with it. I&rsquo;ll use DBCC FILEHEADER to…