In my last article – Identify Tables With Dropped Columns – we saw how we can identify tables that have columns that were dropped. Today, we are going to check a way to approximately calculate how much space we can expect to recover if we rebuild our table.
If you want to read the 1st article I published on this subject, you can read it here – What happens when we drop a column on a SQL Server table? Where’s my space?
Why can this be important?
Rebuilding a table is, by default, an offline operation! This means the table will