Few months ago, we talked about how to partition a table in SQL Server database. Let us now look at a script that you can keep handy if you need to check the details of all different partitions and the related information of all the tables in database –
SELECT s.[name] AS [schema_name]
, t.[name] AS [table_name]
, i.[name] AS [index_name]
, p.[partition_number] AS [partition_number]
, SUM(a.[used_pages]*8.0) AS [partition_size_kb]
, SUM(a.[used_pages]*8.0)/1024 AS [partition_size_mb]
, SUM(a.[used_pages]*8.0)/1048576 AS [partition_size_gb]
, p.[rows] AS [partition_row_count]
, rv.[value] AS [partition_boundary_value]
, p.[data_compression_desc] AS [partition_compression_desc]
FROM sys.schemas s
JOIN sys.tables t ON t.[schema_id] = s.[schema_id]
JOIN sys.partitions p ON p.[object_id] = t.[object_id]
JOIN sys.allocation_units a ON a.[container_id] = p.[partition_id]
JOIN sys.indexes i ON i.[object_id] = p.[object_id]
AND i.[index_id] = p.[index_id]
JOIN sys.data_spaces ds ON ds.[data_space_id] = i.[data_space_id]
LEFT JOIN sys.partition_schemes ps ON ps.[data_space_id] = ds.[data_space_id]
LEFT JOIN sys.partition_functions pf ON pf.[function_id] = ps.[function_id]
LEFT JOIN sys.partition_range_values rv ON rv.[function_id] = pf.[function_id]
AND rv.[boundary_id] = p.[partition_number]
WHERE p.[index_id] <=1
GROUP BY s.[name]
, t.[name]
, i.[name]
, p.[partition_number]
, p.[rows]
, rv.[value]
, p.[data_compression_desc]
This script can be executed on on-premise version of SQL Server database or Azure SQL Datavase as well and it shows quite decent details about the no. of partitions, each partition size, no. of rows in it and the boundary values as –
Note that by default, data is stored in a single partition in a table and in such case there would be no boundary values which is obvious.