There are ROWCOUNT rows in PAGECOUNT pages for object ‘OBJECT’.
This message is displayed when DBCC command is ran for any database. It is harmless and displayed for information purpose only. For each database DBCC commands displays number of rows and number of pages it is using. DBCC CHECKALLOC is exception for this messages.
All DBA and Developers must have observed when any variable length column is dropped from table, it does not reduce the size of table. Table size stays the same till Indexes are reorganized or rebuild. There is also DBCC command DBCC CLEANTABLE, which can be used to reclaim any space previously occupied with variable length columns. Variable length columns include varchar, nvarchar, varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary, varbinary(max), text, ntext, image, sql_variant, and xml. Space can be reclaimed when variable length column is also modified to lesser length.
DBCC CHECKDB checks the logical and physical integrity of all the objects in the specified database. If DBCC CHECKDB ran on database user should not run DBCC CHECKALLOC, DBCC CHECKTABLE, and DBCC CHECKCATALOG on database as DBCC CHECKDB includes all the three command. Usage of these included DBCC commands is listed below.