How To Find The Physical Size Of SQL Server Tables And Indexes

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Inspired by Shannon’s post (give me the size of data and indexes for a file in an oracle database please), I found a SQL statement that finds the size of each table and index in a SQL Server database. I also found that there are a ton of different ways to get this information. Below is the method that I is most beneficial to me:

 
EXEC sp_spaceused
GO

DECLARE @spaceUsed TABLE (
 name varchar(255), 
 rows int, 
 reserved varchar(50), 
 data varchar(50), 
 index_size varchar(50), 
 unused varchar(50))

INSERT INTO @spaceUsed
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"

SELECT name, rows, left(reserved,len(reserved)-3) as [reserved (KB)], 
	left(data,len(data)-3) as [data (KB)], 
	left(index_size,len(index_size)-3) as [index_size (KB)], 
	left(unused,len(unused)-3) as [unused (KB)]
FROM @spaceUsed
order by rows desc

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