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delete tables w/ 0 rowcount

  • May 9, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    #104067

    I'm looking for a quick and easy way to identify all tables in a database with a 0(zero) row count and delete them. Anyone have any good ways of doing this?

  • May 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    #1321939

    something like this looks like it will work to me:

    I'm gneerating a list of tables that are either the HEAP index or the clustered index shows zero rows

    SELECT

    'DROP TABLE ' + so.[name],

    so.[name] as

    , CASE

    WHEN si.indid between 1 and 254

    THEN si.[name]

    ELSE NULL

    END AS [Index Name]

    , si.indid, rows

    FROM sys.sysindexes si

    INNER JOIN sysobjects so

    ON si.id = so.id

    WHERE si.indid < 2

    --AND so.[name] = @tbname

    AND so.type = 'U' -- Only User Tables

    AND [rows] = 0

    ORDER BY so.[name]

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