Microsoft® SQL Server™ version 7.0 introduces significant improvements in the way data is stored physically. These changes are largely transparent to general SQL Server users, but do affect the setup and administration of SQL Server databases.
This topic describes how SQL Server 7.0 files and databases are organized. The SQL Server 7.0 organization is different from the organization of data in earlier versions of SQL Server. Descriptions of the physical database architecture of prior versions are in Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and the Microsoft SQL Server Resource Guide in version 2.0 of the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit, Part 2.