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Get SQL Table Sizes

Posted on December 7, 2009

Very powerful script for determine table sizesm the original blogger http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/121/determing-sql-server-table-size.aspx

DECLARE @TableName VARCHAR(100)    –For storing values in the cursor

–Cursor to get the name of all user tables from the sysobjects listing
DECLARE tableCursor CURSOR
FOR
select [name]
from dbo.sysobjects
where  OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N’IsUserTable’) = 1
FOR READ ONLY

–A procedure level temp table to store the results
CREATE TABLE #TempTable
(
    tableName varchar(100),
    numberofRows varchar(100),
    reservedSize varchar(50),
    dataSize varchar(50),
    indexSize varchar(50),
    unusedSize varchar(50)
)

–Open the cursor
OPEN tableCursor

–Get the first table name from the cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM tableCursor INTO @TableName

–Loop until the cursor was not able to fetch
WHILE (@@Fetch_Status >= 0)
BEGIN
    –Dump the results of the sp_spaceused query to the temp table
    INSERT  #TempTable
        EXEC sp_spaceused @TableName

    –Get the next table name
    FETCH NEXT FROM tableCursor INTO @TableName
END

–Get rid of the cursor
CLOSE tableCursor
DEALLOCATE tableCursor

–Select all records so we can use the reults
SELECT *
FROM #TempTable

–Final cleanup!
DROP TABLE #TempTable

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