Question

Does anyone know how to get the size of a dabase that is hosted on a different server? I basicly want to monitor the size of that DB in a Job on my server.
I tried something like:

select db_name(dbid), str(convert(dec(15),sum(size))* 8192/ 1048576,10) 
from [LINKEDSERVER].master.sys.sysaltfiles 
group by dbid order by 2 desc

For some reason this gives me the data on my current server instead of the remote server.
Also, I’ve read on a forum that the sysaltfiles is only updated at server restarts? This would make it unusable for monitoring, so do you have a better option instead?

Answer 1

try this one , it works i checked

EXEC ('SELECT d.name,
ROUND(SUM(mf.size) * 8 / 1024, 0) Size_MBs
FROM sys.master_files mf
INNER JOIN sys.databases d ON d.database_id = mf.database_id
WHERE d.database_id > 4 
GROUP BY d.name
ORDER BY d.name') AT [LINKEDSERVER]