Are You Approaching Your Partition Range Limits?

In my post last week, How To Estimate Data Utilization, I said that it may be my last post for a while. Well… apparently I lied. 🙂

For those of you who use table partitioning, you know that you need to define a partitioning scheme and function prior to applying partitioning to an index. Personally, I tend to build the function for a couple of years out, and I tend to create them through the end of a calendar year. اسماء الدومنه Now, if I failed to expand a partition range at the end of the year, then come January 1st, all of my data would be written to the same partition. شعار جيمنج Not the end of the world aucasinosonline, no, but it causes all kinds of nasty performance and maintenance issues. Thus, as part of my end-of-year / maternity-leave preparations, I’m in the process of examining all partitioned functions to identify those that need to have their partition ranges expanded. www 888casino com login For those interested, here’s the script I used:

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#Results') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE #Results;

CREATE TABLE #Results
(
      databaseName  NVARCHAR(128)
    , schemaName    NVARCHAR(128)
    , functionName  NVARCHAR(128)
    , data_space_id INT
    , maxRangeValue SQL_VARIANT
)

/* Grab results for each database and store in our temp table.  
   And no, I don't *need* to select from sys.indexes and perform 
   left joins, but I'm overly cautious and want to make sure 
   I'm not accidentally missing any databases. :) */
   
--EXECUTE master.dbo.sp_msforeachdb
EXECUTE sp_foreachdb 'USE ?;
INSERT INTO #Results
SELECT DB_NAME() AS databaseName
    , sps.name AS schemaName
    , spf.name AS functionName
    , sps.data_space_id 
    , MAX(prv.value) AS maxRangeValue
FROM sys.indexes AS i
LEFT JOIN sys.partition_schemes AS sps WITH (NOLOCK)
    ON i.data_space_id = sps.data_space_id
LEFT JOIN sys.partition_functions AS spf WITH (NOLOCK)
    ON sps.function_id = spf.function_id
LEFT JOIN sys.partition_range_values AS prv WITH (NOLOCK)
    ON spf.function_id = prv.function_id
GROUP BY sps.name
    , spf.name
    , sps.data_space_id;';
/*  
    sp_foreachdb was written by SQL MVP Aaron Bertrand and can be downloaded 
    at http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2201/making-a-more-reliable-and-flexible-spmsforeachdb/
    Alternatively, you can also use sys.sp_MSforeachdb
*/

/* Make sure we're not missing any major databases */
SELECT * FROM sys.databases WHERE name NOT IN (SELECT databaseName FROM #Results);

/* Retrieve our results */
SELECT * 
FROM #Results
WHERE schemaName IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY maxRangeValue;

Example Results:

databaseName        schemaName                      functionName                          data_space_id   maxRangeValue
------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------------- --------------- -------------------------
HistoricalMart      dailyRangeDate_ps               dailyRangeDate_pf                     65609           2011-12-31 00:00:00.000
AdventureWorks      yearlyRangeSmallDateTime_ps     yearlyRangeSmallDateTime_pf           65605           2012-01-01 00:00:00.000
dbaTools            monthlyRangeDateTime_ps         monthlyRangeDateTime_pf               65604           2012-12-01 00:00:00.000