This select will be useful for developers/ database designers / DBAs to find the rowlength instantly. This select also makes use of system function to get rid of joins.
Only for sql7 and up.
2002-03-27
2,845 reads
Row Length
select sum(length) from syscolumns where id = object_id('TableName') Related content
Display Row Count for all Tables
This short and simple script is a very fast way to count the rows in all your indexed tables. I ran it against a 2-gigabyte database containing large tables (some with over a million rows!), and it returned results in under a second.
2002-03-12
2,857 reads
SP to show information about log in databases
It calculates log free space in mb and in percent for all databases, and also show the quantity of different objects for one databases.
2002-02-02
2,747 reads
Stored procedure to expose information for a file
I wanted to be able to use info about an operating system file in TSQL. So I wrote this stored procedure that uses the special stored procedures xp_fileexist and xp_getfiledetails. This can tell if a file or folder exists, and if it is a file what is its size, created date and time, last written […]
2002-02-01
1,228 reads
Get list of files from dir and put in table
This stored procedure reads the file names from a directory and stores just the names in a given table. It returns also the number of files present. The sp uses xp_cmdshell and so permissions are restricted to sysadmins and SQLAgentCmdExec. You can test with the following: Create Table ##tmp2 ( fldx nvarchar(255) ) Declare @FilePath […]
2002-02-01
1,960 reads