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Frank Kalis
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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 Posted - 2003-08-14 : 03:19:31
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| Hi there,is there a tool out there, which helps me getting rid of estimating db size myself?Cheers,Frank |
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Stoad
Freaky Yak Linguist
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Posted - 2003-08-14 : 03:49:27
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| What is 'database size'? |
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Frank Kalis
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
413 Posts |
Posted - 2003-08-14 : 03:53:03
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| An more or less precise estimation how large will a db be, given the table structure, index structure....populated with X records.Cheers,Frank |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
15732 Posts |
Posted - 2003-08-14 : 07:41:41
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| Books Online has some formulas for estimating size, you can put them together into a script that you can use to do the job. It's still going to be a guess unless all of your columns are fixed length (int, decimal, char, binary, datetime, money) The second you put in varchar, varbinary, text or image columns or make anything nullable it throws it out of whack. |
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Frank Kalis
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
413 Posts |
Posted - 2003-08-14 : 08:02:23
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That's what I'm doing more or less accurate right now. And in most cases I forget to calculate index space... So I thought there must be some software to do this job for me  Cheers,Frank |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
15732 Posts |
Posted - 2003-08-14 : 08:04:19
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Not that I'm aware of, but you can probably write one and market it. And deal with less-than-satisfied customers who bitch about your tool being off by a megabyte or two.  |
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Frank Kalis
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
413 Posts |
Posted - 2003-08-14 : 08:13:23
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If you promise to buy one and act as marketing flagship, I might consider writing one !  Cheers,Frank |
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Tool to calculate db size