SQL Server Table Data Size Not Increasing with Data Count – Solution

Depending on your permissions, the linked server could be trying to stream all the data over locally and then doing filtering. References

• Performance implications of using OPENQUERY in a view
• Which one is more efficient: select from linked server or insert into linked server?
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2009/09/02/distributed-queries-remote-login-permissions-and-execution-plans.aspx

You might be able to skip that pain by computing the total aggregate count first into a table on the local server and then beat against that.

CREATE TABLE #LOCAL
(
    package_uuid nvarchar(255) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
,   [count] bigint
);

INSERT INTO
    #LOCAL
SELECT 
    p.package_uuid
,   count(d.external_identification) AS [count]
FROM 
    ServerB.DATABASE.dbo.package p
    INNER JOIN 
        ServerB.DATABASE.dbo.doc2 d
        ON p.package_id = d.package_id
GROUP BY 
    p.package_uuid;

Try running that query locally on ServerB first to get an understanding of the theoretical throughput without factoring in your network. You can then do some quick and dirty estimates based on data sizes (500 + 8 per row in temporary table) and then it depends on your network. Hopefully this is all local network.

If the time is significantly different between the run on ServerB and pulling it back over, then you might need to use the OPENQUERY syntax to force the join on the remote server. Code approximately

CREATE TABLE #LOCAL
(
    package_uuid nvarchar(255) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
,   [count] bigint
);

INSERT INTO
    #LOCAL
SELECT
    OQ.package_uuid
,   OQ.[count]
FROM
    OPENQUERY(ServerB,
    N'
    SELECT 
        p.package_uuid
    ,   count(d.external_identification) AS [count]
    FROM 
        DATABASE.dbo.package p
        INNER JOIN 
            DATABASE.dbo.doc2 d
            ON p.package_id = d.package_id
    GROUP BY 
        p.package_uuid
    ) AS OQ;

Even though you fixed the immediate rounding issue, the overall algorithm to get per-object / index stats is incorrect. It does not properly handle LOB and row-overflow data. It also excludes: Indexed Views, FullText indexes, XML indexes, and a few other cases. Hence, you might not be seeing all of your data.

The following is an adaptation of the code I posted to an answer on StackOverflow ( sp_spaceused - How to measure the size in GB in all the tables in SQL ) that handles all of the cases that sp_spaceused handles. That S.O. question was only concerned with per-object stats, not per index, so I have adjusted the code to handle things at the index level.

;WITH agg AS
(   -- Get info for Tables, Indexed Views, etc
    SELECT  ps.[object_id] AS [ObjectID],
            ps.index_id AS [IndexID],
            NULL AS [ParentIndexID],
            NULL AS [PassThroughIndexName],
            NULL AS [PassThroughIndexType],
            SUM(ps.in_row_data_page_count) AS [InRowDataPageCount],
            SUM(ps.used_page_count) AS [UsedPageCount],
            SUM(ps.reserved_page_count) AS [ReservedPageCount],
            SUM(ps.row_count) AS [RowCount],
            SUM(ps.lob_used_page_count + ps.row_overflow_used_page_count)
                    AS [LobAndRowOverflowUsedPageCount]
    FROM    sys.dm_db_partition_stats ps
    GROUP BY    ps.[object_id],
                ps.[index_id]
    UNION ALL
    -- Get info for FullText indexes, XML indexes, Spatial indexes, etc
    SELECT  sit.[parent_id] AS [ObjectID],
            sit.[object_id] AS [IndexID],
            sit.[parent_minor_id] AS [ParentIndexID],
            sit.[name] AS [PassThroughIndexName],
            sit.[internal_type_desc] AS [PassThroughIndexType],
            0 AS [InRowDataPageCount],
            SUM(ps.used_page_count) AS [UsedPageCount],
            SUM(ps.reserved_page_count) AS [ReservedPageCount],
            0 AS [RowCount],
            0 AS [LobAndRowOverflowUsedPageCount]
    FROM    sys.dm_db_partition_stats ps
    INNER JOIN  sys.internal_tables sit
            ON  sit.[object_id] = ps.[object_id]
    WHERE   sit.internal_type IN
               (202, 204, 207, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 221, 222, 236)
    GROUP BY    sit.[parent_id],
                sit.[object_id],
                sit.[parent_minor_id],
                sit.[name],
                sit.[internal_type_desc]
), spaceused AS
(
SELECT  agg.[ObjectID],
        agg.[IndexID],
        agg.[ParentIndexID],
        agg.[PassThroughIndexName],
        agg.[PassThroughIndexType],
        OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(agg.[ObjectID]) AS [SchemaName],
        OBJECT_NAME(agg.[ObjectID]) AS [TableName],
        SUM(CASE
                WHEN (agg.IndexID < 2) THEN agg.[RowCount]
                ELSE 0
            END) AS [Rows],
        SUM(agg.ReservedPageCount) * 8 AS [ReservedKB],
        SUM(agg.LobAndRowOverflowUsedPageCount +
            CASE
                WHEN (agg.IndexID < 2) THEN (agg.InRowDataPageCount)
                ELSE 0
            END) * 8 AS [DataKB],
        SUM(agg.UsedPageCount - agg.LobAndRowOverflowUsedPageCount -
            CASE
                WHEN (agg.IndexID < 2) THEN agg.InRowDataPageCount
                ELSE 0
            END) * 8 AS [IndexKB],
        SUM(agg.ReservedPageCount - agg.UsedPageCount) * 8 AS [UnusedKB],
        SUM(agg.UsedPageCount) * 8 AS [UsedKB]
FROM    agg
GROUP BY    agg.[ObjectID],
            agg.[IndexID],
            agg.[ParentIndexID],
            agg.[PassThroughIndexName],
            agg.[PassThroughIndexType],
            OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(agg.[ObjectID]),
            OBJECT_NAME(agg.[ObjectID])
)
SELECT sp.SchemaName,
       sp.TableName,
       sp.IndexID,
       CASE
         WHEN (sp.IndexID > 0) THEN COALESCE(si.[name], sp.[PassThroughIndexName])
         ELSE N'<Heap>'
       END AS [IndexName],
       sp.[PassThroughIndexName] AS [InternalTableName],
       sp.[Rows],
       sp.ReservedKB,
       (sp.ReservedKB / 1024.0 / 1024.0) AS [ReservedGB],
       sp.DataKB,
       (sp.DataKB / 1024.0 / 1024.0) AS [DataGB],
       sp.IndexKB,
       (sp.IndexKB / 1024.0 / 1024.0) AS [IndexGB],
       sp.UsedKB AS [UsedKB],
       (sp.UsedKB / 1024.0 / 1024.0) AS [UsedGB],
       sp.UnusedKB,
       (sp.UnusedKB / 1024.0 / 1024.0) AS [UnusedGB],
       so.[type_desc] AS [ObjectType],
       COALESCE(si.type_desc, sp.[PassThroughIndexType]) AS [IndexPrimaryType],
       sp.[PassThroughIndexType] AS [IndexSecondaryType],
       SCHEMA_ID(sp.[SchemaName]) AS [SchemaID],
       sp.ObjectID
       --,sp.ParentIndexID
FROM   spaceused sp
INNER JOIN sys.all_objects so -- in case "WHERE so.is_ms_shipped = 0" is removed
        ON so.[object_id] = sp.ObjectID
LEFT JOIN  sys.indexes si
       ON  si.[object_id] = sp.ObjectID
      AND  (si.[index_id] = sp.IndexID
         OR si.[index_id] = sp.[ParentIndexID])
WHERE so.is_ms_shipped = 0
--so.[name] LIKE N''  -- optional name filter
--ORDER BY ????