sp_spaceused

Displays the number of rows, disk space reserved, and disk space used by a table, indexed view, or Service Broker queue in the current database, or displays the disk space reserved and used by the whole database.

Syntax:

sp_spaceused [[ @objname = ] 'objname' ]
[,[ @updateusage = ] 'updateusage' ]

Arguments:
[ @objname =] 'objname'
Is the qualified or nonqualified name of the table, indexed view, or queue for which space usage information is requested. Quotation marks are required only if a qualified object name is specified. If a fully qualified object name (including a database name) is provided, the database name must be the name of the current database.
If objname is not specified, results are returned for the whole database.
objname is nvarchar(776), with a default of NULL.
[ @updateusage =] 'updateusage'
Indicates DBCC UPDATEUSAGE should be run to update space usage information. When objname is not specified, the statement is run on the whole database; otherwise, the statement is run on objname. Values can be true or false. updateusage is varchar(5), with a default of false.

Xp_cmdshell

Executes a given command string as an operating-system command shell and returns any output as rows of text. Grants nonadministrative users permissions to execute xp_cmdshell.

Note When executing xp_cmdshell with the Microsoft® Windows® 98 operating systems, the return code from xp_cmdshell will not be set to the process exit code of the invoked executable. The return code will always be 0.

Syntax

xp_cmdshell {'command_string'} [, no_output]

Arguments

'command_string'

Is the command string to execute at the operating-system command shell. command_string is varchar(8000) or nvarchar(4000), with no default. command_string cannot contain more than one set of double quotation marks. A single pair of quotation marks is necessary if any spaces are present in the file paths or program names referenced by command_string. If you have trouble with embedded spaces, consider using FAT 8.3 file names as a workaround.

no_output

Is an optional parameter executing the given command_string, and does not return any output to the client.

Return Code Values

0 (success) or 1 (failure)