Discrepancy in number of rows and size of database

I'm trying to help a customer extract some data out of their SQL Server
database and am confused as to what I see.
First of all, this is my second day working with MS SQL Server so I'm not at
all up to speed on it as I am with other RDBMs.
This database is almost a gigabyte is size. There are roughly 25 user
tables in it. None of these tables have more than 250 records and none of
these records are very large.
According to the customer they thousands of records when they run the
application tha tuses this database. But I don't see them.
Could they be under a different owner? I see all of the "DBO" owned tables.
Unfortunately this customer doesn't have any documentation on the system and
the consultant who sold the system to them is long gone.
Any ideas?
TIA
Scott Huerta
Distinctive Solutions
Scott,
Database has reserved space, it does not have to be full. So I guess this is
the discrepancy you see.
If you are a member of the sysadmin role, you see all objects, no matter of
owner.
Where are the missing rows? I don't know. Check the Profiler tool in Books
OnLine, with this tool you can catch all commands SQL Server is receiving.
Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP
Associate Mentor
www.SolidQualityLearning.com
"Scott Huerta" <Scott Huerta@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to help a customer extract some data out of their SQL Server
> database and am confused as to what I see.
> First of all, this is my second day working with MS SQL Server so I'm not
at
> all up to speed on it as I am with other RDBMs.
> This database is almost a gigabyte is size. There are roughly 25 user
> tables in it. None of these tables have more than 250 records and none of
> these records are very large.
> According to the customer they thousands of records when they run the
> application tha tuses this database. But I don't see them.
> Could they be under a different owner? I see all of the "DBO" owned
tables.
> Unfortunately this customer doesn't have any documentation on the system
and
> the consultant who sold the system to them is long gone.
> Any ideas?
> TIA
> Scott Huerta
> Distinctive Solutions
|||Thanks for the reply Dejan.
How do I make sure that I'm a member of the SysAdmin role? I think I might
already be as I can see system (i.e. "SYS...") tables and objects.
"Dejan Sarka" wrote:

> Scott,
> Database has reserved space, it does not have to be full. So I guess this is
> the discrepancy you see.
> If you are a member of the sysadmin role, you see all objects, no matter of
> owner.
> Where are the missing rows? I don't know. Check the Profiler tool in Books
> OnLine, with this tool you can catch all commands SQL Server is receiving.
> --
> Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP
> Associate Mentor
> www.SolidQualityLearning.com
> "Scott Huerta" <Scott Huerta@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EDE920CD-F82C-48BC-AA10-FC5885BCC4D3@.microsoft.com...
> at
> tables.
> and
>
>
|||try sp_helpsrvrolemember @.srvrolename = 'sysadmin'
Bob Castleman
SuccessWare Software
"Scott Huerta" <Scott Huerta@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:76B2BB80-962A-4AE3-805A-3240D8EC5BCE@.microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the reply Dejan.
> How do I make sure that I'm a member of the SysAdmin role? I think I
> might
> already be as I can see system (i.e. "SYS...") tables and objects.
>