Reclaim Unused Space / Rebuild Table
Dec 30, 2014
best method to my issue regarding unused space. SQL SERVER 2014 BI EDITTION..I have a table that showed 62% Data, 7% unallocated, and 29% unused space.I ran the ALTER TABLE <table name> REBUILD, which changed it to 32% data and 67% unused.What I do with this table monthly and what I believe is causing this unused space issue is this:Every 1st of the month I get a csv file that holds around 3.2 million rows/15 columns of data. About 3 gbs every time.It's 13 months of data. I remove the last 12 months from the current table and import the new 13 month data.I do this twice a month and have no choice because the data is constantly updated and why we get it twice a month.So I am deleting around 6 gbs of data a month as well as adding around 6 gbs of data a month.
I believe this is why I end up with so much unused space, but just found the REBUILD command, which worked but now a small hit on performance and have too much space in the current table. I have read several times that shrinking the file is no good, but what other way to get rid of the extra space in this table? Also, the table doesn't have any indexes or primary key because of duplicates.
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Sep 15, 2014
currently stuck with an issue where I need to reclaim the unused table space in SQL server.
ISSUE: Due to database size issue we have moved all the images from database to filesystem and want to reclaim the unused space now....I have tried shrinking the database and rebuild the indexes but didn't see any difference in the table or database size.
Similarly I have identified many Non clustered indexes on big transactional tables(~ 4 million records) that where not used since GO live 1 year back, so I wanted to drop these indexes to cut down the performance and maintenance overhead , so my question is will dropping these indexes reduces the database size?
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Feb 11, 2015
I have a table 300+GB. it holds 10 years of Data. I need to delete 5 years of data and put it to another server so I can have more space.
If I delete 5 years of data, Transaction log gets so huge and size of the database even gets bigger because of the .ldf file which even gets bigger! I think I can shrink the log file and the data file. Is this the best way to do it?
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Mar 13, 2008
I'm trying to figure out how to reclaim unused space in a huge table (tbl) after setting one of the text columns to be the empty string. Other tables have foreign key columns associated with tbl.
After doing something like this,
update tbl set col = ''
the table doesn't automatically reclaim that space. If I do a direct insert into a new table like this,
insert into tbl2 (cola, colb, colc) select * from tbl
the new table is smaller as expected (about half the size in my case). Any ideas?
Rob
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Sep 22, 2005
Hey guys,
I have a table which has 6 text columns (tblA).. I no longer require 1 of those text columns and want to reclaim the space that it is currently taking up..
Is the only way to BCP out all the data (except the 1 column i no longer require) drop the column and BCP the data back into the table?
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Feb 23, 2012
how to claim unused free space at table level. The database size is of 4.6TB, recently I deleted some data which is of almost 1.5TB but my unused space has grown upto 2.5TB leaving me short of space on my drives. How do I claim this usused on to OS Disk space?
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Mar 19, 2015
Is it possible to reclaim space after rebuilding indexes(shrinking is not an option).
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Aug 2, 2006
Hello,I tried to make what one reply advice to recover the disk space afterDROPed columns but it doesn't work. I did DBCC DBREINDEX to the tablebut nothing changes.Any other solution?Ignacio
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Jul 23, 2005
Hi,This is probably an easy question for someone so any help would beappreciated.I have changed the columns in a table that where nvarchar to the samesize of type varchar so halve the space needed for them.I have done this a) becuase this is never going to be an internationalapplication, b) we are running out of space and c) there are 100million rows.I have done this with the alter table statement which seems to work butthe space used in the database hasn't altered.I'm presuming that the way the records are structured within the tablethere is just now more space free inbetween each page???Is there a way or re-shrinking just an individual table and free upsome of the space in there or am i missing the point somewhere?Thanks in advance,Ian
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Feb 25, 2015
I have a SQL Server 2012 DB in Full recovery mode that has never had a TLOG backup. the log is huge 200+GB.
I tried doing a transaction log backup but there is not enough space on the Disk.
How can I reclaim this log space in SQL Server 2012?
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Mar 1, 2006
How can I determine how much unused space to remove from database files? I am setting up a maintenance plan and I am trying figure that out.
Also, is there a rule on how far to shrink TL?
Please help. Thanks.
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Mar 29, 2001
Hello,
I have a table which resides on a diff.filegroup.
The space allocated is 7700MB.
Now ehen I use sp_spaceused 'table_name' to see how much space is left it's giving me data as
rows reserved data index Unused
at 1000hrs 629879 6777904 5068344 8 1709552
After an hour 637537 6780336 5070800 8 1709528
After 2hours 643883 6782560 5072904 0 1709656
After 2.5hrs 646887 6783584 5073920 0 KB 1709664 kb
after 3hrs 647239 6783712 5074056 0 KB 1709656 K
If you note rows are increasing,so is the reserved place and data but unused is also increasing.I think it should come down.
What behavior is this?How can I find out how much space is left in this table residing on diff.file group?
TIA
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Mar 12, 2004
I wrote simple script to check space used by tables:
CREATE TABLE #SpaceUsed(
TableName NVARCHAR(128),
NoOfRows INT,
Reserved NVARCHAR(18),
Data NVARCHAR(18),
Index_Size NVARCHAR(18),
Unused NVARCHAR(18)
)
GO
sp_msforeachtable "INSERT INTO #SpaceUsed EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"
SELECT * FROM #SpaceUsed
SELECT
CAST(Sum(CAST(Replace(Reserved,' KB','') AS INT)) AS NVARCHAR) + ' KB' AS TotalReserved,
CAST(Sum(CAST(Replace(Data,' KB','') AS INT)) AS NVARCHAR) + ' KB' AS TotalData,
CAST(Sum(CAST(Replace(Index_Size,' KB','') AS INT)) AS NVARCHAR) + ' KB' AS TotalIndex_Size,
CAST(Sum(CAST(Replace(Unused,' KB','') AS INT)) AS NVARCHAR) + ' KB' AS TotalUnused
FROM #SpaceUsed
DROP TABLE #SpaceUsed
and one of results looks strange to me:
TableName NoOfRows Reserved Data Index_Size Unused
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
T_TableXX 50081 38024 KB 37432 KB 640 KB -48 KB
Anyone know reason of such result (negative value of unused space)?
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Oct 17, 2005
I was just reading a doc on SQL , that said that to free up the unused space from the DB , you should use the shrinkdatabase DBCC commnad. ....
I want to knw how to determine how much free unused space is there in a DB
Thanks,
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Jul 20, 2005
On a production database, there is a 2GB database, when I runsp_spaceused it indicates a very high quanity of unused space. Thedatabase has been shrunk & free space sent to the OS. Why is thisvalue so high, what can I do to reclaim the space?database_name database_size unallocated space------------------------------------------------------------------------------DB_00001 2004.13 MB 49.64 MBreserved data index_size unused------------------ ------------------ --------------------------------1531248 KB 412720 KB 165168 KB 953360 KB
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Feb 7, 2002
I am working with a large database that has its tables stored on a secondary filegroup. I'm trying to shrink the size of the files but I can't seem to get the system to free up the unused space. I've tried shrinkdatabase and shrinkfile both with and without the truncateonly option. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a workaround? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Cathy
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May 26, 2015
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
SQL Server: 2008 SP1 Standard
We have a database with about 500 GB of free disk space on data file and the database is being set to read only mode for the fore-see-able future. We would like to release this unused disk space. We know that we could shrink the data file and then work on re-indexing to remove fragmentation.we wanted to check if some other method like backup and restore of the database could free up unused disk space in the data file. if someone was able to release unused disk space on data file by implementing a backup and restore.
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Jul 9, 2015
I am using SQL Server 2008 (RTM) Standard Edition.
In my environment, one of my Database size is 75 gb and I have to create a plan for index rebuild using maintenance plan.But when we rebuild indexes, it requires some space on data and log files of database.how can we calculate disk space requirement for index rebuild process ?
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Sep 24, 2015
I'm upgrading to SQL 2012 from 2008R2, while doing so i will be rebuilding all the indexes on all the database. In my previous environment while doing so, i got space related error in primary filegroup for insufficient space in the primary filegroup. Is there any rule of thumb about how much space is required by index rebuild command for each database, or is there a safe threshold for free space in the database?
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Sep 15, 2015
I'm trying to determine how much space I would need for my data drive and log file drive to do index rebuild. I have a database which is 100gb, it is in simple recovery mode. let me know what to have a look at to determine how much space.
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Mar 2, 2015
I have 10 Gb index and disk space only left 5gb .
How can i rebuild index ?
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Jun 25, 2015
I have a requirement to only rebuild the Clustered Indexes in the table ignoring the non clustered indexes as those are taken care of by the Clustered indexes.
In order to do that, I have taken the records based on the fragmentation %.
But unable to come up with a logic to only consider rebuilding the clustered indexes in the table.
create table #fragmentation
(
FragIndexId BigInt Identity(1,1),
--IDENTITY(int, 1, 1) AS FragIndexId,
DBNAME nvarchar(4000),
TableName nvarchar(4000),
[Code] ....
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Jul 20, 2005
I have a large table that I recently purged a year of data from.However, the table size in sp_spaceused hasn't decreased as much as Iwould expect. (there are no text or large object columns on thistable, BTW) Running sp_spaceused on the table shows the following.rows reserved data index size unusedTABLE_NAME23470880 67790808 KB 18116312 KB 3211616 KB 46462880 KBI ran a dbcc indexdefrag on all indexes on the table last night,including the clustered index, and I'm still seeing pretty much thesame amount of space reported as unused.The one thing that I haven't done yet is to run the sp_spaceused onthis table with the @updateusage flag set to true as I need to do thisafterhours to reduce contention. I will attempt this tonight andreport on the results.Here's DBCC SHOWCONTIG OUTPUT for the table:DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'TABLE_NAME' table...Table: 'TABLE_NAME' (917578307); index ID: 1, database ID: 7TABLE level scan performed.- Pages Scanned................................: 2264447- Extents Scanned..............................: 285484- Extent Switches..............................: 287092- Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 7.9- Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 98.59%[283056:287093]- Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 0.04%- Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 3.19%- Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 2418.9- Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 70.12%DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact yoursystem administrator.Looking through the history of the group, the one thing that seems toremedy this problem consistantly is to bcp out all the data, trunc thetable and bcp all the data back in. This is not really a possibilityfor me due to the size of the table and the availability expectationsof my customers. Is there anything that I forgot to check? Do youthink that it's just a matter of incorrect statistics in sp_spaceused?Thanks in advance:Matt
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Jan 15, 2015
How to find if there is a query that can be written on DMV's which will be able to retrieve the indexes that are not being used in a table.
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Dec 12, 2007
My goal is to recreate a table daily so that the data is updated. This could be a bad decision performance-wise, but I felt this was simpler than running a daily update statement. I created a stored procedure:SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_CreatetblImprintPhrase
AS
DROP TABLE tblImprintPhrase
GO
CREATE TABLE tblImprintPhrase
(
CustID char(12),
CustName varchar(40),
TranNoRel char(15)
)
GO However, I was looking to edit the stored procedure, changing CREATE to ALTER, but when I do so, I am prompted with: Error 170: Line 2: Incorrect syntax near "(". If I change back to CREATE, the error goes away, but the sproc cannot be run because it already exists. Any thoughts?
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May 27, 2008
I have a very large table with approximately 400 million records in it. Every 10 seconds approximately 150 insert are done on the table. I am attempting to rebuild one of the indexes (non-unique, non-clustered). But when I run a script to rebuild the index online (i have enterprise edition) the VB.NET service that is attempting to insert generates SQL timeout errors (timeout set to 30 seconds). From an article on msdn they state that long term table locks are not held for the duration of the index operation. So what am I missing because I am not close to being a DBA. I know SQL Server is not a SCADA but it is not my choice.
Here is the script for one of the rebuilds
USE [DATABASENAME]
GO
ALTER INDEX [IX_REALLY_BIG_TABLE_DT]
ON [dbo].[REALLY_BIG_TABLE] REBUILD
WITH ( PAD_INDEX = OFF,
STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF,
ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = OFF,
ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON,
SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF,
ONLINE = ON )
GO
Here is the article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188388.aspx
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Jan 17, 2008
My environment is SQL 2000. I have a table with 500 million rows. The table is consistently getting updated and inserted. I can not take the table offline. My clustered index needs to be rebuilt due to decreased performance. How do I accomplish this?
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi,I guess SQL server does not release claimed memory even if it is notused. Is there anyway to free the unused memory?Thanks,John Jayaseelan*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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May 20, 2015
I'm working on re-indexing a table using some commands from ALTER INDEX REBUILD from Microsoft. The indexes will be tested for threshold fragmentation. my plan is once the reindex is executed, a transaction backup will occur while controlling the size of the log file. The query impose time limitations or stop reindexing after the specified amount of time has elapsed.
my question,
1. How can I integrate a query which checks if transaction log is getting full and which runs a Tlog backup if over 70%
2. How do I impose time limitation?
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Mar 5, 2015
I have a table which is updated daily using a MERGE statement. As records are insert, updated and deleted, I am saving the OUTPUT from the MERGE statement into a history table with a timestamp and action$ column appended to the record.
Using this history table, I'd like to rebuild the data based on specific past date. I was able to create a stored procedure that inspects each record in the history table and apply it to the data in a temp table. The stored procedure solution uses multiple queries to rebuild the data at a point in time. I was curious if there was an easier and more efficient solution using a table function.
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Jul 20, 2005
I have a database that has grown larger than I had expected. I thinkthere is one table that is at the root of the problem. The table isdefined as follows:CREATE TABLE [dbo].[UserAudit] ([UserAudit_id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,[UserAuditAction_id] [int] NOT NULL ,[Dataset_id] [int] NOT NULL ,[UserName] [char] (64) NOT NULL ,[TableName] [char] (64) NOT NULL ,[Detail] [varchar] (4000) NOT NULL ,[DateRecorded] [smalldatetime] NOT NULL ,[Dsc] [char] (256) NULL)There are 14919 records in this table. When I do the calculations iapproximate that space used by this table should be in the region of10mb (4+4+4+64+64+290(average length of Detail column)+4+256) * 14919.When I execute "sp_spaceused 'UserAudit'" i see that 119MB are beingused by this table.name rows reserved data index_size unusedUserAudit 14919 119808 KB 119352 KB 400 KB 56 KBEven if I use 4000 for the Detail column in my calculations I stillcome up with about only 64mb.Any ideas on whats going on here?Thanks in advance.
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Nov 16, 2007
I currently have 8,000 rows in the orders table and it is estimated that it will have in average 50 orders daily. The orders need to be kept for 6 months, before it is archived and deleted from the database. I calculated the amount of space that needs to be reserved for the table but unsure if I am on the right track in calculating the table size.
would there be anything wrong in my calcultation that i missed?
int
datetime
tinyint
nvarchar(15)
int
int
int
int
money
money
money
money
datetime
4
4
2
15
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
= 65 bytes
+ rowoverhead = 7
total = 72
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Jul 23, 2005
I have a table name in SQL Server 2000 that has a space in itex: aim internationalI had trouble just in the query analyzer with this..I had to place thename in brackets [] for it to work. But now I'm in Visual Studio .Net2003 and it gives me another problem. I get the table name from a dropdown list selection and send it to a query string. But is gives me thiserror:***************Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 'AIM international'.Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Line 1:Incorrect syntax near 'AIM international'.******************Here is the string:****************Dim sqlStr As String = "SELECT DISTINCT Last_Name FROM '" & PubName &"' WHERE PostalCode ='" & postalcode & "' And Title='" & title & "'ORDER BY Last_Name "**********************And the variable PubName is the string AIM international .I tried placing it in brackets like in the query analyzer :****************Dim sqlStr As String = "SELECT DISTINCT Last_Name FROM ['" & PubName &"'] WHERE PostalCode ='" & postalcode & "' And Title='" & title & "'ORDER BY Last_Name "*******************and I get this:*******************Invalid object name ''AIIM international''.Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid objectname ''AIIM international''.*******************Any idea what I have to do for it to work ??? Can I use table nameswith spaces or it's just not a good idea???Thanks for the help guys!!JMT
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