Hi
I am currently in the process of taking a cut-down copy of our production database and installing it onto SQL Server Express. I have taken many steps to shrink the database (removed tables, truncated existing data etc) as much as I can but can only get it to 15GB. The target is under 10GB. I have used the following query to see where the data is used most:
SELECT t.NAME AS TableName, i.name as indexName, sum(p.rows) as RowCounts, sum(a.total_pages) as TotalPages, sum(a.used_pages) as UsedPages, sum(a.data_pages) as DataPages, (sum(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024 as TotalSpaceMB, (sum(a.used_pages) * 8) / 1024 as UsedSpaceMB, (sum(a.data_pages) * 8) / 1024 as DataSpaceMB 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 WHERE t.NAME NOT LIKE 'dt%' AND i.OBJECT_ID > 255 AND i.index_id <= 1 GROUP BY t.NAME, i.object_id, i.index_id, i.name ORDER BY (sum(a.total_pages) * 8) / 1024 desc
Having added all of the rows up in the total space used column though, it only amounts to 7GB.
Since my cut-down database copy is 15GB and the table total storage is 7GB, this leaves 8GB unaccounted for. My question is how can I find out where the other 8GB is being used please?
Thanks.