Monitor Database Growth

This code provides a way of monitoring the growth of all your databases within a single instance. The first part is the creation of a monitoring table with the initial load of current databases and sizes. The second part is the SQL that can be put in a scheduled job to automate the growth monitoring.

It is recommended that this job is run weekly or monthly, depending on how fast your databases grow. Also, the code was written for SQL 2005 but can easily be altered for SQL 2000 by changing sys.Master_Files to sysaltfiles and sys.databases to sysdatabases. Make sure to change your column names appropriately if you make this alteration!

Create initial table and checks initial data
If exists (Select name from sys.objects where name = 'DBGrowthRate' and Type = 'U')
Drop Table dbo.DBGrowthRate

Create Table dbo.DBGrowthRate (DBGrowthID int identity(1,1), DBName varchar(100), DBID int,
NumPages int, OrigSize decimal(10,2), CurSize decimal(10,2), GrowthAmt varchar(100),
MetricDate datetime)

Select sd.name as DBName, mf.name as FileName, mf.database_id, file_id, size
into #TempDBSize
from sys.databases sd
join sys.master_files mf
on sd.database_ID = mf.database_ID
Order by mf.database_id, sd.name

Insert into dbo.DBGrowthRate (DBName, DBID, NumPages, OrigSize, CurSize, GrowthAmt, MetricDate)
(Select tds.DBName, tds.database_ID, Sum(tds.Size) as NumPages,
Convert(decimal(10,2),(((Sum(Convert(decimal(10,2),tds.Size)) * 8000)/1024)/1024)) as OrigSize,
Convert(decimal(10,2),(((Sum(Convert(decimal(10,2),tds.Size)) * 8000)/1024)/1024)) as CurSize,
'0.00 MB' as GrowthAmt, GetDate() as MetricDate
from #TempDBSize tds
where tds.database_ID not in (Select Distinct DBID from DBGrowthRate
where DBName = tds.database_ID)
Group by tds.database_ID, tds.DBName)

Drop table #TempDBSize

Select *
from DBGrowthRate

Code to run weekly to check the growth.
Select sd.name as DBName, mf.name as FileName, mf.database_id, file_id, size
into #TempDBSize2
from sys.databases sd
join sys.master_files mf
on sd.database_ID = mf.database_ID
Order by mf.database_id, sd.name

If Exists (Select Distinct DBName from #TempDBSize2
where DBName in (Select Distinct DBName from DBGrowthRate))
and Convert(varchar(10),GetDate(),101) > (Select Distinct Convert(varchar(10),Max(MetricDate),101) as MetricDate
from DBGrowthRate)
Begin
Insert into dbo.DBGrowthRate (DBName, DBID, NumPages, OrigSize, CurSize, GrowthAmt, MetricDate)
(Select tds.DBName, tds.database_ID, Sum(tds.Size) as NumPages,
dgr.CurSize as OrigSize,
Convert(decimal(10,2),(((Sum(Convert(decimal(10,2),tds.Size)) * 8000)/1024)/1024)) as CurSize,
Convert(varchar(100),(Convert(decimal(10,2),(((Sum(Convert(decimal(10,2),tds.Size)) * 8000)/1024)/1024))
- dgr.CurSize)) + ' MB' as GrowthAmt, GetDate() as MetricDate
from #TempDBSize2 tds
join DBGrowthRate dgr
on tds.database_ID = dgr.DBID
Where DBGrowthID = (Select Distinct Max(DBGrowthID) from DBGrowthRate
where DBID = dgr.DBID)
Group by tds.database_ID, tds.DBName, dgr.CurSize)
End
Else
IF Not Exists (Select Distinct DBName from #TempDBSize2
where DBName in (Select Distinct DBName from DBGrowthRate))
Begin
Insert into dbo.DBGrowthRate (DBName, DBID, NumPages, OrigSize, CurSize, GrowthAmt, MetricDate)
(Select tds.DBName, tds.database_ID, Sum(tds.Size) as NumPages,
Convert(decimal(10,2),(((Sum(Convert(decimal(10,2),tds.Size)) * 8000)/1024)/1024)) as OrigSize,
Convert(decimal(10,2),(((Sum(Convert(decimal(10,2),tds.Size)) * 8000)/1024)/1024)) as CurSize,
'0.00 MB' as GrowthAmt, GetDate() as MetricDate
from #TempDBSize2 tds
where tds.database_ID not in (Select Distinct DBID from DBGrowthRate
where DBName = tds.database_ID)
Group by tds.database_ID, tds.DBName)
End

--Select *
--from DBGrowthRate
----Verifies values were entered

Drop table #TempDBSize2