Viewing the disk space usage (size) of all the tables in a SQL Server 2005/2008 database
I spent a couple of hours searching for a script that returns the size of all the tables in a database. Most of the ones that you find use sp_msforeachtable but that is just for one table and you then need to use temporary tables to hold the values.
This article on the Database Journal by Ananth Kumar (AKA MAK) had this handy script that simply works by copy-pasting it as is. Read the linked article for details on viewing the size by schema.
BEGIN TRY
SELECT
(row_number() over(order by a3.name, a2.name))%2 as l1,
a3.name AS [schemaname],
a2.name AS [tablename],
a1.rows as row_count,
(a1.reserved + ISNULL(a4.reserved,0))* 8 AS reserved,
a1.data * 8 AS data,
(CASE WHEN (a1.used + ISNULL(a4.used,0)) > a1.data THEN
(a1.used + ISNULL(a4.used,0)) - a1.data ELSE 0 END) * 8 AS index_size,
(CASE WHEN (a1.reserved + ISNULL(a4.reserved,0)) > a1.used THEN
(a1.reserved + ISNULL(a4.reserved,0)) - a1.used ELSE 0 END) * 8 AS unused
FROM
(SELECT
ps.object_id,
SUM (
CASE
WHEN (ps.index_id < 2) THEN row_count
ELSE 0
END
) AS [rows],
SUM (ps.reserved_page_count) AS reserved,
SUM (
CASE
WHEN (ps.index_id < 2) THEN
(ps.in_row_data_page_count + ps.lob_used_page_count + ps.row_overflow_used_page_count)
ELSE (ps.lob_used_page_count + ps.row_overflow_used_page_count)
END
) AS data,
SUM (ps.used_page_count) AS used
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats ps
GROUP BY ps.object_id) AS a1
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT
it.parent_id,
SUM(ps.reserved_page_count) AS reserved,
SUM(ps.used_page_count) AS used
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats ps
INNER JOIN sys.internal_tables it ON (it.object_id = ps.object_id)
WHERE it.internal_type IN (202,204)
GROUP BY it.parent_id) AS a4 ON (a4.parent_id = a1.object_id)
INNER JOIN sys.all_objects a2 ON ( a1.object_id = a2.object_id )
INNER JOIN sys.schemas a3 ON (a2.schema_id = a3.schema_id)
WHERE a2.type <> 'S' and a2.type <> 'IT'
ORDER BY a3.name, a2.name
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
SELECT
-100 as l1
, 1 as schemaname
, ERROR_NUMBER() as tablename
, ERROR_SEVERITY() as row_count
, ERROR_STATE() as reserved
, ERROR_MESSAGE() as data
, 1 as index_size
, 1 as unused
END CATCH
Quick extra tip, if you export the result-set to Excel you can do additional sorts to figure out more stuff. For example the first table on this list was taking up 47GB of disk space in a 63 GB database. With the index taking more space than the actual data! But this is more of an OLAP db with just one batch update daily and optimized for retrieving data faster so I guess that's okay.
