Database Growth

I would like to know followings:

I want to see every day or weekly Database growth (%) save on table

I have some SP which will give me one time run and see the growth. which is ...

Please advice any other way to find out and save on a location ...

create procedure sp_growth as

set ansi_warnings off

declare @.l_db_name varchar(50)
,@.l_sql_string varchar(1000)

set nocount on
if object_id('DB_Growth') is not null
drop table DB_Growth

create table DB_Growth (Database_Name varchar(30), Logical_File_Name varchar(15), File_Size_MB int, Growth_Factor varchar(100))

declare db_name_cursor insensitive cursor
for
select name from master..sysdatabases

open db_name_cursor

fetch next from db_name_cursor into
@.l_db_name

While (@.@.fetch_status = 0)
begin
select @.l_sql_string = 'select ' + '''' + @.l_db_name + '''' + ', name, ceiling((size * 8192.0)/(1024.0 * 1024.0)), case when status & 0x100000 = 0 then convert(varchar,ceiling((growth * 8192.0)/(1024.0*1024.0))) + '' MB''' + char(10)+char(13)
+ 'else convert (varchar, growth) + '' Percent''' + char(10)+char(13)
+ 'end' + char(10)+char(13)
+ 'from [' + @.l_db_name + '].dbo.sysfiles'
insert into DB_Growth (Database_Name, Logical_File_Name, File_Size_MB, Growth_Factor)
exec (@.l_sql_string)

fetch next from db_name_cursor into
@.l_db_name
end
close db_name_cursor
deallocate db_name_cursor
select * from DB_Growth with (nolock)
if object_id('DB_Growth') is not null
drop table DB_Growth
set nocount off
set ansi_warnings on
return

GO

Thanks
Faiz Farazi
Daudkandi,Comilla, Bangladesh
http://www.databasetimes.net/

Hi Faiz,

You could use the following. Used in SQL 2000 and I use it for SQL 2005.

Code Snippet

use database_name

go

dbcc showfilestats

go

For log file sizes:

Code Snippet

dbcc SQLperf(logspace)

go

more over sysfiles, only shows the file size allocated, not being used.

regards

Jag