Thursday, February 9, 2012

Actual number of bytes used

Is there a way in SQL to ask what the actual record size of a specific record is in a table that has multiple varchar fields? I'm trying to do some statistics on bytes/record and can't seem to find an easy way to see what the actual storage space is
Thanks!SELECT DATALENGTH(col1) + DATALENGTH(col2) ...
FROM ...
WHERE ...
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Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
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"Sue D" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way in SQL to ask what the actual record size of a specific
> record is in a table that has multiple varchar fields? I'm trying to do
> some statistics on bytes/record and can't seem to find an easy way to see
> what the actual storage space is.
> Thanks!

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