USE master;
GO
SELECT name, physical_name AS CurrentLocation, state_desc
FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = DB_ID(N'master')

SELECT name, physical_name AS CurrentLocation, state_desc
FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = DB_ID(N'tempdb')

SELECT name, physical_name AS CurrentLocation, state_desc
FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = DB_ID(N'model')

SELECT name, physical_name AS CurrentLocation, state_desc
FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = DB_ID(N'msdb')

Result:

Result:

lcid        name
———– ———————————————–
5124        Chinese (Macau SAR)
4100        Chinese (Singapore)
3098        Serbian (Cyrillic)
3082        Spanish
3076        Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, PRC)
2074        Serbian (Latin)
2070        Portuguese
…………….
1036        French
1033        English
1031        German
1028        Traditional Chinese
1027        Catalan
1026        Bulgarian
1025        Arabic
76            76
69            69
25            25
13            13
1              1
0              Neutral

(53 row(s) affected)

The following query will bring the list of system stopwords corresponding to the English locale:

When this query is run 154 records containing system stopwords will be returned.

Solution
Checking for free disk space before proceeding with a process is a wise move if disk space is tight or a high percentage of the drive is needed for the process. It is disconcerting to have a process run for hours only to fail towards the end of the process due to insufficient disk space. Although a few different options are available to check for disk space (CLR, WMI, PowerShell, etc.) in SQL Server, let’s see how we can use the xp_fixeddrives extended stored procedure which is available in SQL Server 2000 to 2008.

In the sample stored procedure below, it is accepting a parameter for the minimum amount of megabytes (MB) free on a specific disk drive, then executing the master.sys.xp_fixeddrives extended stored procedure into a temporary table. Once the data is in the temporary table the current amount of free disk space is compared to the minimum amount of free disk space to determine if the process should continue or raise an error.

One item to keep in mind is that between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005/2008 the owner for the xp_fixeddrives extended stored procedure changed. In SQL Server 2000, xp_fixeddrives was owned by dbo and in SQL Server 2005/2008 the owner is sys. Due to this ownership change, two stored procedures are provided below. One for SQL Server 2005/2008 and a second for SQL Server 2000.

*** NOTE *** - SQL Server 2008 and 2005 Version

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.spExec_SufficientDiskSpace @MinMBFree int, @Drive char(1) AS
/*
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Object Name: dbo.spExec_SufficientDiskSpace
-- Project: Admin Scripts
-- Business Process: Monthly Sales Reports
-- Purpose: Validate sufficient disk space
-- Detailed Description: Validate sufficient disk space based on based on the
-- @MBfree and @Drive parameters
-- Database: Admin
-- Dependent Objects: master.sys.xp_fixeddrives
-- Called By: Admin Scripts
-- Upstream Systems: Unknown
-- Downstream Systems: Unknown
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Rev | CMR | Date Modified | Developer | Change Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 001 | N\A | 03.05.2009 | MSSQLTips | Original code
--
*/

SET NOCOUNT ON

-- 1 - Declare variables
DECLARE @MBfree int
DECLARE @CMD1 varchar(1000)

-- 2 - Initialize variables
SET @MBfree = 0
SET @CMD1 = ''

-- 3 - Create temp tables
CREATE TABLE #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
(Drive varchar(2) NOT NULL,
[MB free] int NOT NULL)

-- 4 - Populate #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
INSERT INTO #tbl_xp_fixeddrives(Drive, [MB free])
EXEC master.sys.xp_fixeddrives

-- 5 - Initialize the @MBfree value
SELECT @MBfree = [MB free]
FROM #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
WHERE Drive = @Drive

-- 6 - Determine if sufficient fre space is available
IF @MBfree > @MinMBFree
BEGIN
RETURN
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RAISERROR ('*** ERROR *** - Insufficient disk space.', 16, 1)
END

-- 7 - DROP TABLE #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
DROP TABLE #tbl_xp_fixeddrives

SET NOCOUNT OFF
GO

*** NOTE *** - SQL Server 2000 Version

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.spExec_SufficientDiskSpace @MinMBFree int, @Drive char(1) AS
/*
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Object Name: dbo.spExec_SufficientDiskSpace
-- Project: Admin Scripts
-- Business Process: Monthly Sales Reports
-- Purpose: Validate sufficient disk space
-- Detailed Description: Validate sufficient disk space based on based on the
-- @MBfree and @Drive parameters
-- Database: Admin
-- Dependent Objects: master.sys.xp_fixeddrives
-- Called By: Admin Scripts
-- Upstream Systems: Unknown
-- Downstream Systems: Unknown
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Rev | CMR | Date Modified | Developer | Change Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 001 | N\A | 03.05.2009 | MSSQLTips | Original code
--
*/

SET NOCOUNT ON

-- 1 - Declare variables
DECLARE @MBfree int
DECLARE @CMD1 varchar(1000)

-- 2 - Initialize variables
SET @MBfree = 0
SET @CMD1 = ''

-- 3 - Create temp tables
CREATE TABLE #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
(Drive varchar(2) NOT NULL,
[MB free] int NOT NULL)

-- 4 - Populate #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
INSERT INTO #tbl_xp_fixeddrives(Drive, [MB free])
EXEC master.dbo.xp_fixeddrives

-- 5 - Initialize the @MBfree value
SELECT @MBfree = [MB free]
FROM #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
WHERE Drive = @Drive

-- 6 - Determine if sufficient fre space is available
IF @MBfree > @MinMBFree
BEGIN
RETURN
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RAISERROR ('*** ERROR *** - Insufficient disk space.', 16, 1)
END

-- 7 - DROP TABLE #tbl_xp_fixeddrives
DROP TABLE #tbl_xp_fixeddrives

SET NOCOUNT OFF

GO