Displaying the Sizes of Your SQL Server's Database's Tables

 

Determining the Space Used by a Database or a particular Table
SQL Server has a handy little system stored procedure named sp_spaceused that will return the space used by a database or by a particular table. To determine the size used by the database, simply run:

EXEC sp_spaceused [table]

Returning the Space Used for All Tables

The sp_MSforeachtable stored procedure is one of many undocumented stored procedures tucked away in the depths of SQL Server. A list of these handy stored procedures can be found at SQL Server 2000 Useful Undocumented Stored Procedures. In short, you can use sp_MSforeachtable like so:

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="command to run"

In the command to run put a ? where you want the table name to be inserted. For example, to run the sp_spaceused stored procedure for each table in the database, we’d use:

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"

This will execute EXEC sp_spaceused 'TableName' for each user table in the database.

Combining Multiple Result Sets Into a Single Result Set Using Temporary Tables

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.TableSpaceUsed
AS

-- Create the temporary table...
CREATE TABLE #tblResults
(
   [name]   nvarchar(50),
   [rows]   int,
   [reserved]   varchar(18),
   [reserved_int]   int default(0),
   [data]   varchar(18),
   [data_int]   int default(0),
   [index_size]   varchar(18),
   [index_size_int]   int default(0),
   [unused]   varchar(18),
   [unused_int]   int default(0)
)


-- Populate the temp table...
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1=
         "INSERT INTO #tblResults
           ([name],[rows],[reserved],[data],[index_size],[unused])
          EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"
   
-- Strip out the " KB" portion from the fields
UPDATE #tblResults SET
   [reserved_int] = CAST(SUBSTRING([reserved], 1, 
                             CHARINDEX(' ', [reserved])) AS int),
   [data_int] = CAST(SUBSTRING([data], 1, 
                             CHARINDEX(' ', [data])) AS int),
   [index_size_int] = CAST(SUBSTRING([index_size], 1, 
                             CHARINDEX(' ', [index_size])) AS int),
   [unused_int] = CAST(SUBSTRING([unused], 1, 
                             CHARINDEX(' ', [unused])) AS int)
   
-- Return the results...
SELECT * FROM #tblResults

This stored procedure will return a single result set. The fields that end in _int are the integer representations of those fields that are returned with KB fields.

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