In the previous two posts, I shared basic about Forwarding Records of Heap Table and shared a script to find the count of Forwarded Records in SQL Server.

In this post, I am sharing a practical demonstration on Forwarding Records like generate Forwarding Records and then Remove those Forwarding Records.

Please check the below full demonstration:

Create a sample HEAP table:

CREATE TABLE tbl_Heap
(
	Col1 INT IDENTITY(1,1)
	,Col2 VARCHAR(1000)	
)
GO

Insert sample records with VARCHAR(5) size:

INSERT INTO tbl_Heap (Col2) VALUES
('dbrnd')
GO 1000

Now, Update the data from VARCHAR(5) to VARCHAR(31):

UPDATE tbl_Heap
SET Col2 = 'Database Research & Development'
GO

Check the count of Forwarding Records:

For removing Forwarding Records, we should REBUILD the table:

ALTER TABLE tbl_Heap REBUILD
GO

Now, Check the new count of Forwarding Records:
The count is 0 now.

In the previous post, I shared basic about Forwarded Records in Heap table of SQL Server.
In this post, I am sharing a script to check the count of Forwarded Records of a Table.

In the below script, you can add a filter of your database and table for getting the number of Forwarding Records.

SELECT
	OBJECT_NAME(object_id) as TableName
	,index_type_desc
	,page_count
	,avg_page_space_used_in_percent
	,avg_record_size_in_bytes
	,forwarded_record_count
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats
(
	DB_ID('database_name')
	,OBJECT_ID('table_name')
	,NULL
	,NULL
	,'DETAILED'
)
GO