Record db Growth

To get my own metrics in place quickly at a new sql2008r1 site I created a ‘dba’ database with a table called ‘dbsizes. Then a job scheduled to run every 10pm with the first step called ‘record sizes’ containing this code …

set nocount on

create table #sizes (
name varchar(50),
db_size varchar(50),
[owner] varchar(50),
[dbid] char(1),
created smalldatetime,
[status] varchar(500),
compatability_level char(2))

insert #sizes exec sp_helpdb

insert into dba.dbo.dbsizes
select name, getdate() dbdate, db_size
from #sizes
order by name desc

drop table #sizes