Size of Table

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Size of Table

Shah_hs

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April 27, 2007 at 9:37 am

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How to identify and restrict size of a table in db?

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bdohmen SSCrazy Points: 2996 More actions · Answer 1

Are you talking about disk size or row count? sp_spaceused tablename will tell you the size of a table. As far as restricting the disk size, the only thing I can think of is to put it in it's own filegroup and limit the size of the filegroup. But it's not a very exact solution. Plus, once you hit the limit, all additions to the table will fail.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004409 More actions · Answer 2

You could put a trigger trigger on the table that counts the rows in the table... could be either an AFTER trigger that deletes what's been inserted once it hits a limit or an INSTEAD OF trigger that prevents insertion altogether.

--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.

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