How to Find Size of All Tables In Sql Server Database

I have inherited a fairly large SQL Server database. It seems to take up more space than I would expect, given the data it contains.

Is there an easy way to determine how much space on disk each table is consuming?

Answers:

SELECT
    t.NAME AS TableName,
    s.Name AS SchemaName,
    p.rows AS RowCounts,
    SUM(a.total_pages) * 8 AS TotalSpaceKB,
    CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024.00), 2) AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) AS TotalSpaceMB,
    SUM(a.used_pages) * 8 AS UsedSpaceKB,
    CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.used_pages) * 8) / 1024.00), 2) AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) AS UsedSpaceMB,
    (SUM(a.total_pages) - SUM(a.used_pages)) * 8 AS UnusedSpaceKB,
    CAST(ROUND(((SUM(a.total_pages) - SUM(a.used_pages)) * 8) / 1024.00, 2) AS NUMERIC(36, 2)) AS UnusedSpaceMB
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 OUTER 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
GROUP BY
    t.Name, s.Name, p.Rows
ORDER BY
    t.Name

If you are using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), instead of running a query (which in my case returned duplicate rows) you can run a standard report.

Right click on the database
Navigate to Reports > Standard Reports > Disk Usage By Table
Note: The database compatibility level must be set to 90 or above for this to work correctly.

After some searching, I could not find an easy way to get information on all of the tables. There is a handy stored procedure named sp_spaceused that will return all of the space used by the database. If provided with a table name, it returns the space used by that table. However, the results returned by the stored procedure are not sortable, since the columns are character values.

The following script will generate the information I'm looking for.

create table #TableSize (
    Name varchar(255),
How to Find Size of All Tables In Sql Server Database
How to Find Size of All Tables In Sql Server Database
    [rows] int,
    reserved varchar(255),
    data varchar(255),
    index_size varchar(255),
    unused varchar(255))

create table #ConvertedSizes (
    Name varchar(255),
    [rows] int,
    reservedKb int,
    dataKb int,
    reservedIndexSize int,
    reservedUnused int)

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="insert into #TableSize
EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"
insert into #ConvertedSizes (Name, [rows], reservedKb, dataKb, reservedIndexSize, reservedUnused)
select name, [rows],
SUBSTRING(reserved, 0, LEN(reserved)-2),
SUBSTRING(data, 0, LEN(data)-2),
SUBSTRING(index_size, 0, LEN(index_size)-2),
SUBSTRING(unused, 0, LEN(unused)-2)
from #TableSize

select * from #ConvertedSizes
order by reservedKb desc

drop table #TableSize
drop table #ConvertedSizes

Above queries are good for finding the amount of space used by the table (indexes included), but if you want to compare how much space is used by indexes on the table use this query:

SELECT
    OBJECT_NAME(i.OBJECT_ID) AS TableName,
    i.name AS IndexName,
    i.index_id AS IndexID,
    8 * SUM(a.used_pages) AS 'Indexsize(KB)'
FROM
    sys.indexes AS i JOIN
    sys.partitions AS p ON p.OBJECT_ID = i.OBJECT_ID AND p.index_id = i.index_id JOIN
    sys.allocation_units AS a ON a.container_id = p.partition_id
GROUP BY
    i.OBJECT_ID,
    i.index_id,
    i.name
ORDER BY
    OBJECT_NAME(i.OBJECT_ID),
    i.index_id

Here is another method: 

Using SQL Server Management Studio, in Object Explorer, go to your database and select Tables

Then open the Object Explorer Details (either by pressing F7 or going to View->Object Explorer Details). In the object explorer details page, right click on the column header and enable the columns that you would like to see in the page. You can sort the data by any column too.

This will give you the sizes, and record counts for each table.

set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- Get a list of tables and their sizes on disk
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_Table_Sizes]
AS
BEGIN
    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
    -- interfering with SELECT statements.
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @table_name VARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @schema_name VARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @tab1 TABLE(
        tablename VARCHAR (500) collate database_default
       ,schemaname VARCHAR(500) collate database_default
)

CREATE TABLE #temp_Table (
        tablename sysname
       ,row_count INT
       ,reserved VARCHAR(50) collate database_default
       ,data VARCHAR(50) collate database_default
       ,index_size VARCHAR(50) collate database_default
       ,unused VARCHAR(50) collate database_default
)

INSERT INTO @tab1
SELECT Table_Name, Table_Schema
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'

DECLARE c1 CURSOR FOR
SELECT Table_Schema + '.' + Table_Name 
FROM information_schema.tables t1
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'

OPEN c1
FETCH NEXT FROM c1 INTO @table_name
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN 
        SET @table_name = REPLACE(@table_name, '[','');
        SET @table_name = REPLACE(@table_name, ']','');

        -- make sure the object exists before calling sp_spacedused
        IF EXISTS(SELECT id FROM sysobjects WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(@table_name))
        BEGIN
               INSERT INTO #temp_Table EXEC sp_spaceused @table_name, false;
        END

        FETCH NEXT FROM c1 INTO @table_name
END
CLOSE c1
DEALLOCATE c1

SELECT  t1.*
       ,t2.schemaname
FROM #temp_Table t1
INNER JOIN @tab1 t2 ON (t1.tablename = t2.tablename )
ORDER BY schemaname,t1.tablename;

DROP TABLE #temp_Table
END

This is only relevant for SQL Server 2000 and has been tested to work in my environment.

This code accesses All possible databases of a single instance, not just a single database.

I use two temp tables to help collect the appropriate data and then dump the results into one 'Live' table.

Returned data is: DatabaseName, DatabaseTableName, Rows (in the Table), data (size of the table in KB it would seem), entry data (I find this useful for knowing when I last ran the script).

Downfall to this code is the 'data' field is not stored as an int (The chars 'KB' are kept in that field), and that would be useful (but not totally necessary) for sorting.

Hopefully this code helps someone out there and saves them some time!

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_getAllDBTableSizes]

AS
BEGIN
   SET NOCOUNT OFF

   CREATE TABLE #DatabaseTables([dbname] sysname,TableName sysname)
   CREATE TABLE #AllDatabaseTableSizes(Name sysname,[rows] VARCHAR(18), reserved VARCHAR(18), data VARCHAR(18), index_size VARCHAR(18), unused VARCHAR(18))

   DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(4000)
   SET @SQL='select ''?'' AS [Database], Table_Name from [?].information_schema.tables WHERE TABLE_TYPE = ''BASE TABLE'' '

   INSERT INTO #DatabaseTables(DbName, TableName)
      EXECUTE sp_msforeachdb @Command1=@SQL

   DECLARE AllDatabaseTables CURSOR LOCAL READ_ONLY FOR 
   SELECT TableName FROM #DatabaseTables

   DECLARE AllDatabaseNames CURSOR LOCAL READ_ONLY FOR 
   SELECT DBName FROM #DatabaseTables

   DECLARE @DBName sysname
   OPEN AllDatabaseNames

   DECLARE @TName sysname
   OPEN AllDatabaseTables

   WHILE 1=1 BEGIN
      FETCH NEXT FROM AllDatabaseNames INTO @DBName
      FETCH NEXT FROM AllDatabaseTables INTO @TName
      IF @@FETCH_STATUS<>0 BREAK
      INSERT INTO #AllDatabaseTableSizes
         EXEC ( 'EXEC ' + @DBName + '.dbo.sp_spaceused ' + @TName)

   END

   --http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa175920(v=sql.80).aspx
   INSERT INTO rsp_DatabaseTableSizes (DatabaseName, name, [rows], data)
      SELECT   [dbname], name, [rows],  data FROM #DatabaseTables
      INNER JOIN #AllDatabaseTableSizes
      ON #DatabaseTables.TableName = #AllDatabaseTableSizes.Name
      GROUP BY [dbname] , name, [rows],  data
      ORDER BY [dbname]
   --To be honest, I have no idea what exact duplicates we are dropping
    -- but in my case a near enough approach has been good enough.
   DELETE FROM [rsp_DatabaseTableSizes]
   WHERE name IN
      (
      SELECT name
      FROM [rsp_DatabaseTableSizes]
      GROUP BY name
      HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
      )

   DROP TABLE #DatabaseTables
   DROP TABLE #AllDatabaseTableSizes

   CLOSE AllDatabaseTables
   DEALLOCATE AllDatabaseTables

   CLOSE AllDatabaseNames
   DEALLOCATE AllDatabaseNames   
END

--EXEC [dbo].[usp_getAllDBTableSizes]
In case you need to know, the rsp_DatabaseTableSizes table was created through:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[rsp_DatabaseSizes](
    [DatabaseName] [varchar](1000) NULL,
    [dbSize] [decimal](15, 2) NULL,
    [DateUpdated] [smalldatetime] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO.

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