How to determine the size of my tables in the SQL Server database
Is there any built-in function/stored procedure/query which is helpful to retrieve information about the size of
MyTable
in the SQL Server database?The answer given by AA.SC is very useful except that the msdb database identifier needs to be removed from all the DMVs in the join. As it stands it only reports on tables in msdb itself!
For single table you can use
sp_spaceused MyTable
For all tables in a database you can use it with
sp_msforeachtable
as follwoingCREATE TABLE #temp ( table_name sysname , row_count INT, reserved_size VARCHAR(50), data_size VARCHAR(50), index_size VARCHAR(50), unused_size VARCHAR(50)) SET NOCOUNT ON INSERT #temp EXEC sp_msforeachtable 'sp_spaceused ''?''' SELECT a.table_name, a.row_count, COUNT(*) AS col_count, a.data_size FROM #temp a INNER JOIN information_schema.columns b ON a.table_name collate database_default = b.table_name collate database_default GROUP BY a.table_name, a.row_count, a.data_size ORDER BY CAST(REPLACE(a.data_size, ' KB', '') AS integer) DESC DROP TABLE #temp
If you don't want to write a script, you can also open the much underused 'Object Explorer Details' in SSMS (Shortcut key F7).
From the Top-Level, open the Tables folder to get a list of all the tables in your database.
You may need to customise the columns to see the Space Used. This can be done by right clicking on the header row and choosing the columns you wish to display.
There's plenty more data like this available in Object Explorer Details.
Much nicer than the t-sql approach above (which didn't work for me)
In SSMS right click on Database, select Reports, Standard Reports, Disk Usage by Top Tables.
The report will give you number of rows and kilobytes used per table.
Take a look at sys.dm_db_partition_stats (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187737.aspx).
There are some sample queries at that link and also at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cindygross/archive/2010/04/02/dmv-series-sys-dm-db-partition-stats.aspx
You can modify to suit your needs i.e. filter in/out non-clustered indexes. Multiply page count by 8 to get size in KB, then divide by 2^10 (=1024) to convert to MB if required.
sp_spaceused (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188776.aspx) will also give table size information.
To get table size information I like to use following script
SELECT sc.name + '.' + t.NAME AS TableName, p.[Rows], ( SUM(a.total_pages) * 8 ) / 1024 AS TotalReservedSpaceMB, -- Number of total pages * 8KB size of each page in SQL Server ( SUM(a.used_pages) * 8 ) / 1024 AS UsedDataSpaceMB, ( SUM(a.data_pages) * 8 ) / 1024 AS FreeUnusedSpaceMB FROM msdb.sys.tables t INNER JOIN msdb.sys.schemas sc ON sc.schema_id = t.schema_id INNER JOIN msdb.sys.indexes i ON t.OBJECT_ID = i.object_id INNER JOIN msdb.sys.partitions p ON i.object_id = p.OBJECT_ID AND i.index_id = p.index_id INNER JOIN msdb.sys.allocation_units a ON p.partition_id = a.container_id WHERE t.type_desc = 'USER_TABLE' AND i.index_id <= 1 --- Heap\ CLUSTERED AND t.NAME='MYTableName' -- Replace with valid table name GROUP BY sc.name + '.' + t.NAME, i.[object_id],i.index_id, i.name, p.[Rows] ORDER BY ( SUM(a.total_pages) * 8 ) / 1024 DESC
Go to to database then right click and click on reports then standard reports then disk usage by table. This will give you all the ta les in that database and thier records, data, indexes etc
you can use the following script that calculates the volume for each table and another result set of the total per data base
SET NOCOUNT ON IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#SpaceUsed') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #SpaceUsed CREATE TABLE #SpaceUsed ( TableName sysname , [Rows] int , [Reserved] varchar(20), [Data] varchar(20), [Index_Size] varchar(20), [Unused] varchar(20), [Reserved_KB] bigint, [Data_KB] bigint, [Index_Size_KB] bigint, [Unused_KB] bigint ) DECLARE @CMD NVARCHAR(MAX) ='' SELECT @CMD +='EXEC sp_spaceused ' + ''''+QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA)+'.'+ QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)+''''+';'+CHAR(10) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES --PRINT @CMD INSERT INTO #SpaceUsed (TableName ,[Rows] , [Reserved], [Data] , [Index_Size] , [Unused] ) EXEC sp_executesql @CMD UPDATE #SpaceUsed SET [Reserved_KB] = CONVERT(BIGINT,RTRIM(LTRIM(REPLACE([Reserved] , ' KB', '')))), [Data_KB] = CONVERT(BIGINT,RTRIM(LTRIM(REPLACE([Data] , ' KB', '')))), [Index_Size_KB]= CONVERT(BIGINT,RTRIM(LTRIM(REPLACE([Index_Size] , ' KB', '')))), [Unused_KB]= CONVERT(BIGINT,RTRIM(LTRIM(REPLACE([Unused] , ' KB', '')))) SELECT TableName, [Rows], Reserved_KB , Data_KB , Index_Size_KB , Unused_KB , Data_KB / 1024.0 Data_MB , Data_KB / 1024.0 / 1024.0 Data_GB FROM #SpaceUsed ORDER BY Data_KB DESC SELECT SUM(Reserved_KB) Reserved_KB , SUM(Data_KB) Data_KB, SUM(Index_Size_KB) Index_Size_KB , SUM(Unused_KB) Unused_KB ,SUM(Data_KB / 1024.0) Data_MB , SUM(Data_KB / 1024.0 / 1024.0) Data_GB FROM #SpaceUsed DROP TABLE #SpaceUsed
damn, this script is really good, thanks... I tested it on Azure SQL and works...
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6 years ago
This answer on SO has a script that is pretty simple and does not require undocumented procedure.