/*
Created: 2019-03-12 by Michael J. Swart
Modified: 2019-03-19 by Konstantin Taranov
Original Link: http://michaeljswart.com/2019/03/lonely-tables-in-sql-server/
Source link: https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit/blob/master/Scripts/Find_Not_Used_Legacy_Tables.sql
*/

/* USE [your db name here]; */


IF OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#myplans', 'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #myplans;
IF OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#myExecutions', 'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #myExecutions;

SELECT qs.query_hash,
       qs.plan_handle,
       cast(null AS xml) AS query_plan
  INTO #myplans
  FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs
 CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes(qs.plan_handle) pa
 WHERE pa.attribute = 'dbid'
   AND pa.value = DB_ID();
 
WITH duplicate_queries AS (
  SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY query_hash ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS n
  FROM #myplans
)
DELETE duplicate_queries
 WHERE n > 1;

UPDATE #myplans
   SET query_plan = qp.query_plan
  FROM #myplans AS mp
 CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(mp.plan_handle) AS qp;

WITH XMLNAMESPACES (DEFAULT 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan'),
my_cte AS (
    SELECT q.query_hash,
           obj.value('(@Schema)[1]', 'sysname') AS [schema_name],
           obj.value('(@Table)[1]', 'sysname') AS table_name
      FROM #myplans q
     CROSS APPLY q.query_plan.nodes('/ShowPlanXML/BatchSequence/Batch/Statements/StmtSimple') as nodes(stmt)
     CROSS APPLY stmt.nodes('.//IndexScan/Object') AS index_object(obj)
)
SELECT query_hash, [schema_name], table_name
  INTO #myExecutions
  FROM my_cte
 WHERE [schema_name] IS NOT NULL
   AND OBJECT_ID([schema_name] + '.' + table_name) IN (SELECT [object_id] FROM sys.tables)
 GROUP BY query_hash, [schema_name], table_name;

WITH multi_table_queries AS (
    SELECT query_hash
      FROM #myExecutions
     GROUP BY query_hash
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
),
lonely_tables AS (
    SELECT [schema_name], table_name
      FROM #myExecutions
    EXCEPT
    SELECT [schema_name], table_name
      FROM #myExecutions WHERE query_hash IN (SELECT query_hash FROM multi_table_queries)
)
SELECT l.[schema_name]
     , l.table_name
     , ps.row_count
  FROM lonely_tables AS l
  LEFT JOIN sys.dm_db_partition_stats AS ps
       ON OBJECT_ID(l.[schema_name] + '.' + l.table_name) = ps.object_id
 WHERE ps.index_id in (0, 1)
 ORDER BY ps.row_count DESC;