Name of the command to view the current amount of free (unallocated) space in the database in SQL Server?

Posted By :Virendra Dugar Posted Date :20/11/2009 Points :10 Category :Sql Server

Name of command is :sp_spaceused

This command displays the database_size in MB, and it's also shows unallocated space for the database.

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