I suppose everyone has a set of scripts they lean on to help make sense of it all. These scripts are my version of sp_spaceused, one to query a specific table and the other at db level. Admittedly these are rough around the edges, that said they quickly allow me to break down a table and its index usage.
Here is the table specific one with some sample output and sp_spaceused output for comparison. I like the fact I can distinguish between standard data pages and for example, row overflow or lob pages. An interesting column is non_data_mb, which is the spaced used to store the index information (non leaf levels).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | declare @schema sysname = '' , @table sysname = '' select quotename(OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(p.object_id)) + '.' + quotename(OBJECT_NAME(p.object_id)) [table_name] , p.index_id , i.name [index_name] , p.rows , au.type_desc , convert(decimal(10, 3), au.total_pages /128.) [reserved_mb] , convert(decimal(10, 3), au.data_pages /128.) [data_mb] , au.data_pages , convert(decimal(10, 3), (au.used_pages - au.data_pages) /128.) [non_data_mb] , convert(decimal(10, 3), (au.total_pages - au.used_pages) /128.) [unused_mb] from sys.partitions p join sys.allocation_units au on p.hobt_id = au.container_id join sys.indexes i on p.object_id = i.object_id and p.index_id = i.index_id where p.object_id = object_id(quotename(@schema) + '.' + quotename(@table)); |
The code for both scripts is available here in Github.
Enjoy.