Determining Record Count and Table Sizes
When attempting to determine current database size it is useful to know each tables record count along with its size in MBs
This assists with determining whether there are specific tables causing a database to dramatically increase in size.
This script can be used as an analysis tool to determine what each table and view is storing and its approximate physical size in MBs.
This script will output a Text file that can be opened from within Excel and then reformatted to sort in descending sequence (eg: by MBs)
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