What is the best way to estimate how much memory a row will require?

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Published on 2010-04-19T20:21:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 20:33 UTC
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I'm working on a project that will have a single table holding lots and lots of rows on either a SQL Server or SQL Azure installation. I'm trying to estimate how many rows I can store per GB. Is it a matter of simply adding up the memory size of the individual column data types? Is there other overhead to consider?

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