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Spatial Fragmentation Viewer

Slava Murygin writes a spatial query which shows database fragmentation:

As you can see, I definitely have a lot of free space, but my data are so spread across the file and especially up to it’s border, that there is no way to make file size smaller.

If we zoom at the very tail we can figure out the names of tables at the very end of the file, which prevent file from shrinking:

This looks quite a bit like the old Windows 95 defrag tool.  I like it.