Estimating database and table size in Netezza

Estimating database and table size and skew in Netezza

nz_db_size utility present in /nz/support/contrib/3.1/bin/ can be used to estimate the total number of bytes on disk that a given database and the tables belonging to the database is occupying:


Usage is as follows:

nz_db_size [ -s ] [ database [ table ] ]

E.g.:

[nz@nps12345 bin]$ ./nz_db_size MYTESTDB MYTABLE

Object | Name | Bytes | KB | MB | GB | TB
-----------+----------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------+--------
Appliance | nps1234 | 134,934,002 | 136,083 | 132,894 | 192.8 | .1
Database | MYTESDB | 123,245,56 | 12,345,67 | 1000 | 1230 | .0
Table | MYTABLE | 1,206,720 | 1,178 | 1 | .0 | .0

To get summary stats for database use the below command:

[nz@mpc-nps]$ nz_db_size -summary -s

  Object   |               Name               |        Bytes         |        KB        |      MB      |     GB     |   TB
-----------+----------------------------------+----------------------+------------------+--------------+------------+--------
 Appliance | mpc-nps                   |    1,34343,2434,24 |   1,232,32,23232,34 |    2,167,756 |    4,2267 |    2.1
 Database  | MYTESTDB                          |      123,2323,3232,33 |      123,345,343|      456,334|      686.0 |     .7


nz_stats is another command that can be used be get the full statistics:

For example: nzstats show -type table