SQL Server - recursive CTE to retrieve rowstore index IAM chain

 A SQL Server recursive CTE can reach a maximum level of recursion of 32768.

Strting with the first IAM page for a rowstore index, the entire IAM chain can be retrieved, as each IAM page indicates the next page in the chain.

So a recursive CTE could reliably retrieve IAM chains for the rowstore indexes in a filegroup until the filegroup exceeds 128 TB in aggregate file size. (Because each IAM page accounts for database file usage in a ~4GB range of a file, for a single rowstore index.)

This CTE will retrieve an IAM chain. AFAIK, it's performance will beat the brakes off any similar query relying on sys.dm_db_database_page_allocations.

DECLARE @object_id	INT		= OBJECT_ID('NOTES_FROM_BEYOND');
DECLARE @index_id	SMALLINT	= 1; 
DECLARE @type_desc	VARCHAR(20)	= 'IN_ROW_DATA';

					/*IN_ROW_DATA, ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA, LOB_DATA*/

;WITH start_page AS 
(	SELECT				fp.file_id
	,				fp.page_id
	FROM				sys.system_internals_allocation_units siau
	JOIN				sys.partitions sp 
	ON				siau.container_id	= sp.partition_id
	CROSS APPLY			sys.fn_PhysLocCracker(siau.first_iam_page) fp
	WHERE				sp.object_id		= @object_id
	AND				sp.index_id		= @index_id
	AND				siau.type_desc		= @type_desc	)
, rec_cte AS
(	SELECT				next_page_file_id	= CONVERT(BIGINT, sp.file_id)
	,				next_page_page_id	= CONVERT(BIGINT, sp.page_id)
	,				iam_page_ordinal	= 1
	FROM				start_page sp

	UNION ALL
	SELECT				CONVERT(BIGINT, dpi.next_page_file_id)
	,				CONVERT(BIGINT, dpi.next_page_page_id)
	,				iam_page_ordinal = iam_page_ordinal + 1
	FROM				rec_cte
	CROSS APPLY			sys.dm_db_page_info(DB_ID(), next_page_file_id, next_page_page_id, 'DETAILED') dpi
	WHERE				dpi.next_page_file_id <> 0    ) 
SELECT		rc.iam_page_ordinal, file_id = rc.next_page_file_id, page_id = rc.next_page_page_id
FROM		rec_cte rc
WHERE		rc.next_page_file_id IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY	rc.iam_page_ordinal
OPTION		(maxrecursion 32767);