TOTAL SIZE OF A ROW IN A TABLE

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TOTAL SIZE OF A ROW IN A TABLE

avinashily

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February 18, 2011 at 2:34 am

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Hi all,
i have a table with the following data types defined for the columns,
a nvarchar(50) not null,
nume numeric(18,0) not null,
time1 datetime null,
variab nvarchar(max) null,
abc text null,
numcha nchar(20) null,
can you guys tell me what will be the length of the row if the row utilizes full column size and what if it is less than the column size?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398717 More actions · Answer 1

avinashily (2/18/2011)
Hi all,
i have a table with the following data types defined for the columns,
a nvarchar(50) not null,
nume numeric(18,0) not null,
time1 datetime null,
variab nvarchar(max) null,
abc text null,
numcha nchar(20) null,
can you guys tell me what will be the length of the row if the row utilizes full column size and what if it is less than the column size?

It's basically a question of looking up the data types in Books Online, getting the size from there and adding everything up. Is this a homework or interview question?

NVARCHAR(50) = up to 102 bytes (you'll have to check BOL for why there are 2 more there)

NUMERIC(18) = 9 bytes

DATETIME = 8 bytes

NVARCHAR(MAX) = who knows (up to 2 gigs of storage, but less stored in the table, again, hit BOL)

TEXT = similar to NVARCHAR(MAX) (but you really shouldn't be using this. It's due to be deprecated with some future release of SQL Server, use NVARCHAR or VARCHAR with MAX).

NCHAR(20) = 42 bytes

That shold be enough to get you started.

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Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 2

You might also want to read this blog posting:

Kimberly Tripp’s blog posting

http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/SQL-Server-2005.aspx

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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magasvs SSCertifiable Points: 7660 More actions · Answer 3

If this will be useful - keep in mind that when you use NVARCHAR or NCHAR data types in will take almost twice more space than VARCHAR and CHAR.