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Posted - 2004-02-13 : 08:12:09
Syed writes "How to estimate the amount of space required to store the data in a table?

I am looking for a simple formula to calculate the size table. If the following information is already known
number_of_rows, number_of_columns and datatypes.

If I can find an example that will be great."

rihardh
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Posted - 2004-02-13 : 08:55:16
Hmm... I know I saw the formulas in a book once, don't remember the title though. I'll let you know...
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ehorn
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Posted - 2004-02-13 : 10:02:23
Maybe the following link will be useful:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/createdb/cm_8_des_02_92k3.asp
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X002548
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Posted - 2004-02-13 : 10:09:22
Nice link Jay...added that one to my Favorites...



Brett

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ehorn
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Posted - 2004-02-13 : 10:18:57
Actually, Graz posted this back in 2000:

http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6107&SearchTerms=estimating,size

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