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Asked: 2026-06-10T00:49:43+00:00

I have a requirement to scrape 3 million documents. They are all text and

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I have a requirement to scrape 3 million documents. They are all text and varchar fields. For sample I just scraped 250 documents and when I ran EXEC sp_spaceused it gave me 26.6 MB as Database size. I want to know can we calculate the size required to store 3 million documents from this? Offcourse that would be an approximate value. But question is can we really calculate based on this value?

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  1. Editorial Team

    250 docs is quite a small sample for 3 million docs. Depending on what else you have in the DB it’s hard to say how much of those 26.6 are made up of documents.

    I’d say that 26.6MB / 250 * 3000000 ~= 319GB is an upper bound a high estimate on the size of the DB with all the documents, assuming that the 250 you’ve scraped are representative samples.

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