Need to find the number of rows in every table in a DB

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Need to find the number of rows in every table in a DB

kwitzell

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May 18, 2006 at 9:33 am

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Is there a SQL command that will let me find the number rows of every table in a SQL server database? In other words a command or sp that when run would output the number of rows in every table in one go. I have a SQL database that has gotten rather large and would like to figure out which table is using all of the space without having to go through Enterprise Manager or QA and look at them individually.
Thanks!
Ken

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65143 More actions · Answer 1

You can use an undocumented procedure

sp_msforeachtable 'SELECT ''?'',COUNT(*) FROM ?'

also you could create a temp table and insert the results to it

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

R2ro Default port Points: 1439 More actions · Answer 2

Another (documented) option & rather fast...

DBCC

SHOWCONTIG WITH TABLERESULTS

John Rowan SSC Guru Points: 56440 More actions · Answer 3

Run this through QA, output to File. Open the file in QA and run. Or, output to text and cut/paste into new QA window and run.

set nocount on

SELECT 'CREATE TABLE #tmpTableCount (TableName varchar(50),TableCount int)'

SELECT 'INSERT INTO #tmpTableCount (TableName, TableCount) SELECT ''' + [Name] + ''' ,COUNT(*) FROM ' + [Name]

FROM SYSOBJECTS

WHERE xtype = 'U'

SELECT 'SELECT TableName, TableCount FROM #tmpTableCount'

SELECT 'DROP TABLE #tmpTableCount'

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kwitzell SSCrazy Points: 2470 More actions · Answer 4

kwitzell

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May 18, 2006 at 10:22 am

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Thanks! those did the trick

Ken

Gabor Nyul SSCrazy Eights Points: 9459 More actions · Answer 5

If an approximatve value is enough for you then this would give you what you want:

selectO.name,

rowcnt

fromsysindexes I join sysobjects O on O.id = I.id

whereindid < 2

andO.type = 'U'

order

byO.name

You can improve the exactness by running dbcc updateusage (0) with count_rows

Bye
Gabor