table size catalogue

[theo]

I'm trying to see where my database is growing? How can I
see the size of individual tables?
Earlier questions on this message board are not available
anymore?
thank you

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

There's no simple way to determine how much space each individual table
requires, but then there's little reason to need that information either, as
you can't do anything with it!

The only way I've ever heard of to discover how much each table uses is to
create a new database, and note its size. Import each table, one at a time,
noting the size of the database after each import.

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