DECLARE @currentDB AS VARCHAR(100) DECLARE @mrsdb_sqlscript AS NVARCHAR(500) DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name from sys.databases where state_desc <> 'offline' and name not in ('master', 'tempdb', 'model', 'msdb') order by name DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #largestTables CREATE TABLE #largestTables ( DatabaseName VARCHAR(100), SchemaName VARCHAR(200), TableName VARCHAR(200), TotalRowCount INT ) OPEN db_cursor FETCH NEXT from db_cursor into @currentDB WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN SET @mrsdb_sqlscript = N'INSERT INTO #largestTables SELECT ''' + @currentDB + ''' , SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS [SchemaName], [Tables].name AS [TableName], SUM([Partitions].[rows]) AS [TotalRowCount] FROM ' + @currentDB + '.sys.tables AS [Tables] JOIN ' + @currentDB + '.sys.partitions AS [Partitions] ON [Tables].[object_id] = [Partitions].[object_id] AND [Partitions].index_id IN ( 0, 1 ) GROUP BY SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id), [Tables].name'; PRINT 'Looking for largest table in the following DB: ' + @currentDB exec sp_executesql @mrsdb_sqlscript FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor into @currentDB END CLOSE db_cursor DEALLOCATE db_cursor SELECT TOP 100 * FROM #largestTables ORDER BY TotalRowCount DESC, Schemaname ASCThe SQL script above will use a temporary table variable and database cursor and loop through all databases, executing a SQL script that will insert data into a temporary table variable and after the cursor has looped through its dataset, the result in the temporary table variable is presented to the DBA monitoring. Use it to spot where you have much data in your databases of the data base server you are working with!
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Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Finding databases with biggest tables in SQL Server
I created a T-SQL script today for use with SQL Server that will list the tables that have most rows for SQL Server, able to loop through all databases.
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