Comments on: SQL SERVER – Find the Size of Database File – Find the Size of Log File http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tsawm http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-218310 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:41:30 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-218310 Thank you very much

]]> By: madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-182957 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:27:25 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-182957 Also make sure to know about implicit convertions
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2008/01/16/beware-of-implicit-conversions.aspx

]]> By: Troy http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-181317 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:09:29 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-181317 And if you alter it just a little bit, you can have them summed by database:

SELECT DB_NAME(database_id) AS DatabaseName,
SUM((size*8)/1024) SizeMB
FROM sys.master_files
group by DB_NAME(database_id)
order by DB_NAME(database_id)

]]> By: Erika http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-163676 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:08:00 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-163676 Thanks for your help and for taking the time to help others, Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Erika Gamboa

]]> By: basava http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-134557 Mon, 16 May 2011 06:43:35 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-134557 hi can you please help me for configuring mirroring through script.

]]> By: madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-125916 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:17:40 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-125916 Also read this post
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2008/01/16/beware-of-implicit-conversions.aspx

]]> By: Brass http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-125080 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:56:29 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-125080 It’s not clear in my earlier comment, but the period at the end of my sentence is supposed to be a decimal point. Let me try again: “(size*8)/1024.0″.

]]> By: Brass http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-125079 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:53:58 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-125079 You have some integer math up there. It should be: (size*8)/1024.

]]> By: Shoaib http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-115560 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:03:14 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-115560 Hi Shiyam,

You are right that you can Right Click and know the file size,
but think of if you have 76 Databases on the instance and you want to send a report to your manager then would you click on each of the databases and copy /paste one by one? Obviously NOT,, then the the benefit of the script comes to play… just run the script and in few sec you have report for every database even for 347 databases on one instance..
thanks Pinal,,, lots of SQL Server experts and instructors (even officially from Microsoft) suggest to go to MS website or their blogs, but my first choice is yours because I find answer which is very too the point and some time exact what I want. Great work.

Shoaib
from Canada

]]> By: shiyam http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-108811 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:18:38 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-108811 Hi,

This gives the initial size not the current size of the log file.
If you are looking for the initial size, isnt it better to right click, properties, select “file” and look for the initial size in the gui?

What is the difference in using the Script?

- Shiyam

]]> By: Ratna Kumar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-83109 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:44:46 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-83109 Hi,

What is the recommended database file size in MS SQL 2005? as of now, one of my production database having one data file and size is 70 GB. And it is set to auto grow.

will it cause any performance issue if it continiously grow? is there any recommended size we can restrict and create secondary file once it is reached that size?

Can you give some tips to usage on data file size in MS SQL 2005 database? Thanks in advance!

regards,
Ratna Kumar.

]]> By: krishna http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-74193 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:24:48 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-74193 Hi Pinal,

Can you please provide me the script to find the free space of all the databases in sql server 2005?

Thanks in advance

]]> By: Jeyakumar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-65960 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:59:16 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-65960 Yes fly,

sp_helpdb ‘AdventureWorks’ does the same job

]]> By: WillC http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-65327 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:17:26 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-65327 Pinal – as usual you deliver precisely what I look for, thanks!

]]> By: Jignesh http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-65232 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:12:12 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-65232 One Suggestion , you can get a Db,Table, Size calculator utility from your trainees.

The user needs to give input of the no. of types of columns and they get the estimated size result….

It will be a very good utility for many people …

]]> By: Normant http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-61491 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:40:12 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-61491 Thanks for the script, any way to add the last backup of DB and log files to it?

]]> By: Vivek http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-61133 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:33:44 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-61133 Hi Pinal,

What about sp_databases. Is it not the same?

Thanks
Vivek

]]> By: Raj http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60966 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:18:21 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60966 Just realized. The above statement returns only allocated space of each file. But DBCC SHOWFILESTATS returns total the used extents.

]]> By: Raj http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60965 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:12:23 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60965 Thank you. This saves lot of my time. So far we are using DBCC SHOWFILESTATS.

]]> By: Pinal Dave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60853 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:51:01 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60853 Hello Yusuf,

You are right, there is no better way to get log size of all databases. There are few other methos to know the size and free space in database files but there is no simple alternate for the output of sqlperf (‘logspace’).

Regards,
Pinal Dave

]]> By: Ramdas http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60844 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:46:05 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60844 Thanks for the script.

]]> By: fly http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60834 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:03:16 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60834 Hi, Pinal
Seems sp_helpdb ‘AdventureWorks’ does the same job

]]> By: Yusuf http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60826 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:45:58 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60826 Though sys.master_files has tons more info but I still like dbcc sqlperf (‘logspace’) if its only about getting the free log space.

]]> By: Nitin Sharma http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/02/08/sql-server-find-the-size-of-database-file-find-the-size-of-log-file/#comment-60825 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:43:59 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=7954#comment-60825 Wonderful article Pinal.

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