How can you tell what Tables are taking up the most space in a SQL Server 2005 Database?

Question

How can you tell what Tables are taking up the most space in a SQL Server 2005 Database?

I am sure there is some System Stored Procedure that shows this information.

I have a TEST database that grew from 1tb to 23tb. We are currently doing a lot of client conversion testing in the database, which entails running the same conversion Stored Procedure multiple times. It does DELETEs which I am sure is increasing the Transaction Log. But this got me thinking to ask this question.

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the big problem is the dbo.Download table, it creates massive storage that is actually not needed, I had 3GB before truncating it, then 52MB ;)

Answer 1

Try this script - it will list the number of rows and the space used by data rows (and the total space used) for all tables in your database:

SELECT 
 t.NAME AS TableName,
 i.name AS indexName,
 SUM(p.rows) AS RowCounts,
 SUM(a.total_pages) AS TotalPages, 
 SUM(a.used_pages) AS UsedPages, 
 SUM(a.data_pages) AS DataPages,
 (SUM(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024 AS TotalSpaceMB, 
 (SUM(a.used_pages) * 8) / 1024 AS UsedSpaceMB, 
 (SUM(a.data_pages) * 8) / 1024 AS DataSpaceMB
FROM 
 sys.tables t
INNER JOIN  
 sys.indexes i ON t.OBJECT_ID = i.object_id
INNER JOIN 
 sys.partitions p ON i.object_id = p.OBJECT_ID AND i.index_id = p.index_id
INNER JOIN 
 sys.allocation_units a ON p.partition_id = a.container_id
WHERE 
 t.NAME NOT LIKE 'dt%' AND
 i.OBJECT_ID > 255 AND  
 i.index_id <= 1
GROUP BY 
 t.NAME, i.object_id, i.index_id, i.name 
ORDER BY 
 OBJECT_NAME(i.object_id) 

Answer 2

Use sp_spacedUsed

Exec sp_spaceused N'YourTableName'

Or if you want to execute the sp_spaceused for each table in your database then you can use this SQL:

set nocount on
create table #spaceused (
  name nvarchar(120),
  rows char(11),
  reserved varchar(18),
  data varchar(18),
  index_size varchar(18),
  unused varchar(18)
)

declare Tables cursor for
  select name
  from sysobjects where type='U'
  order by name asc

OPEN Tables
DECLARE @table varchar(128)

FETCH NEXT FROM Tables INTO @table

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
  insert into #spaceused exec sp_spaceused @table
  FETCH NEXT FROM Tables INTO @table
END

CLOSE Tables
DEALLOCATE Tables 

select * from #spaceused
drop table #spaceused

exec sp_spaceused

The above SQL is from here

Answer 3

Rossisdead's comment answered this question the best for me, I wish it wasn't buried in a comment. This will be useful for people like me not trying to script the solution (the OP did not ask for a code snippet)

If you're using Management Studio you can also right click on the database and go to Reports -> Disk Usage by Table for the same results

Answer 4

Thanks to @marc_s for the answer. I needed to know data vs index space so I went ahead and expanded on the query to include that.

SELECT TableName
    , SUM(DataRowCounts) AS DataRowCounts
    , SUM(DataTotalSpaceGB) AS DataTotalSpaceGB
    , SUM(DataSpaceUsedGB) AS DataSpaceUsedGB
    , SUM(DataUnusedSpaceGB) AS DataUnusedSpaceGB
    , SUM(IndexRowCounts) AS IndexRowCounts
    , SUM(IndexTotalSpaceGB) AS IndexTotalSpaceGB
    , SUM(IndexSpaceUsedGB) AS IndexSpaceUsedGB
    , SUM(IndexUnusedSpaceGB) AS IndexUnusedSpaceGB
    , SUM(DataTotalSpaceGB) + SUM(IndexTotalSpaceGB) AS TotalSpaceGB
FROM
(
SELECT t.NAME AS TableName
    , i.type_desc AS IndexType
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc IN ('CLUSTERED', 'CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE', 'HEAP') THEN CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024.00), 2)/1000 AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) ELSE 0 END AS DataTotalSpaceGB
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc IN ('CLUSTERED', 'CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE', 'HEAP') THEN CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.used_pages) * 8) / 1024.00), 2)/1000 AS NUMERIC(36, 2))  ELSE 0 END AS DataSpaceUsedGB    
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc IN ('CLUSTERED', 'CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE', 'HEAP') THEN CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.total_pages) - SUM(a.used_pages)) * 8) / 1024.00, 2)/1000 AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) ELSE 0 END AS DataUnusedSpaceGB
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc IN ('CLUSTERED', 'CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE', 'HEAP') THEN SUM(p.Rows) ELSE 0 END AS DataRowCounts
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc = 'NONCLUSTERED' THEN CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024.00), 2)/1000 AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) ELSE 0 END AS IndexTotalSpaceGB
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc = 'NONCLUSTERED' THEN CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.used_pages) * 8) / 1024.00), 2)/1000 AS NUMERIC(36, 2))  ELSE 0 END AS IndexSpaceUsedGB    
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc = 'NONCLUSTERED' THEN CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.total_pages) - SUM(a.used_pages)) * 8) / 1024.00, 2)/1000 AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) ELSE 0 END AS IndexUnusedSpaceGB  
    , CASE WHEN i.type_desc = 'NONCLUSTERED' THEN SUM(p.Rows) ELSE 0 END AS IndexRowCounts
FROM sys.tables t
INNER JOIN sys.indexes i ON t.OBJECT_ID = i.object_id
INNER JOIN sys.partitions p ON i.object_id = p.OBJECT_ID AND i.index_id = p.index_id
INNER JOIN sys.allocation_units a ON p.partition_id = a.container_id
LEFT JOIN sys.schemas s ON t.schema_id = s.schema_id
WHERE t.NAME NOT LIKE 'dt%'
    AND t.is_ms_shipped = 0
    AND i.OBJECT_ID > 255
    AND s.Name = 'dbo' --update this filter
    AND t.Name = 'MyTable'
GROUP BY t.Name
    , i.type_desc
) x
GROUP BY TableName
ORDER BY TotalSpaceGB DESC