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Sylvia Moestl Vasilik

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:57 PM

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Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:47 AM

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hi,

I've just implented the script and think the result output is awesome.
However i was wondering if there was any way within the script that it would include all databases on the server instead of one at at time, and to have a history on the size since it was first created. Also is there any way it could be executed as a job, if so what do you reckon the command will be, to run this in SQL AGENT agent
ie something similar to
exec sp_track_db_growth "northwind" s an example

Like i said the script was and is fantabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

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David Bird

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:42 AM

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Nice script, except to convert bytes to gigabytes you need to divide it by 1073741824 Bytes

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Manie Verster

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:39 AM

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Good article. I just found that using the floor function gave the size as 1 right through because the db that I work on is 1.6 gb so I rather used the round function and it came up tops. Thanks for a good article.
Below is an example of what I did.

select BackupDate = convert(varchar(10),backup_start_date, 111), SizeInGigs=round(backup_size/1024000000,4)
from msdb..backupset
where database_name = 'OrisysSql' and type = 'd'
order by backup_start_date desc

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kodracon

Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:16 PM

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to apply this script to every database on the server try using this and modify the script as appropriate:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Metadata/65453/

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Joseph-465703

Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 11:07 AM

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what about the databases which are backed up with compression method like litespeed, let say today backup is taken with native method and tommorrow backup is taken with litespeed, how do we know whther databae size is increased or not.

thanks
Joseph

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Jpotucek

Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 1:15 PM

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How would I modify this script to show the results in MB instead of GB?

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madyson3

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 11:40 AM

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use the figure 1048576 instead of 1024000000 or 1073741824.

KB = 1024
MB = 1024^2
GB = 1024^3
so on and so forth.

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kbotha80

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:29 PM

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Greate Script. Usually peopel would like to see percentage growth which is easily calulate using this script of yours. Providing the Db always gorwos in size thsi will work. - Script great Idee Cool

Select ((MAX(SizeInGigs) - MIN(SizeInGigs))/ MAX(SizeInGigs))*100 from (
select BackupDate = convert(varchar(10),backup_start_date, 111)
,SizeInGigs=floor(backup_size)
from msdb..backupset
where
database_name = 'CES'
and type = 'd'
)TB

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kbotha80

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:32 PM

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""""
what about the databases which are backed up with compression method like litespeed, let say today backup is taken with native method and tommorrow backup is taken with litespeed, how do we know """"

If you use percentage growth - over the time periods not compressed and compressed periods it should be more or less the same

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