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finding out which tables are the biggest

  • December 1, 2009 at 4:07 am

    #228278

    I’ve got a remote database that I need to download and restore to another server.

    The BAK file’s pretty big.(I’ve already shrunk the database and the files.The log file isn’t very big.

    I don’t remember that much data being on it.

    Data: 136192 KB

    Log: 1024 KB

    Is there any other way to reduce the size of the database, short of going in and deleting data?

    If not, I need to know which tables contain the most data…Can I find out the above via a query?

    Many thanks,

    yogi

  • December 1, 2009 at 5:48 am

    #1085711

    Yogi,

    Check this out.

    http://sql-articles.com/scripts/table-space-details

    Regards..Vidhya Sagar
    SQL-Articles

  • December 1, 2009 at 6:07 am

    #1085720

    run this

    declare @STR varchar(max)

    create table #tmpspace (name varchar(100), rows int, reserved varchar(200), data varchar(200), index_size varchar(200), unused varchar(200))

    select @STR = isnull(@str,'') + ' insert #tmpspace exec sp_spaceused [' + name + ']' from sys.tables

    exec (@str)

    update #tmpspace

    set data = replace(data,'kb','')

    select name [Table], rows [Rows], cast(data as int) [size(KB)] from #tmpspace

    order by cast(data as int) desc

  • December 1, 2009 at 9:07 am

    #1085886

    hiya,

    Worked like treat.

    Thanks folks,

    yogi

  • December 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    #1086046

    That's only 136 Mega bytes... why the concern?

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • December 2, 2009 at 4:38 am

    #1086358

    hiya,

    I had to upload it from 1 server to another.

    When it was too big the web upload would timeout.

    cheers,

    yogi

  • December 2, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    #1086862

    Ah... got it. Didn't really register on me what you were doing. Thanks for the feedback.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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