Question

I’m trying to clean up a database and want to determine which tables are no longer needed so I can drop them.

(SQL Server 2000)

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Yes – a query such as this should give you the information you need:

SELECT 
        last_user_seek,
        last_user_scan
    FROM
        sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats
    WHERE
        database_id = DB_ID() and object_id = object_id('tablename')

Update for SQL 2000: No – I believe there’s no built in way of getting this information in SQL 2000