Table row count using 3 different ways

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Table row count using 3 different ways

Mohit Nayyar

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September 25, 2007 at 6:44 pm

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ianhenderson Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 597 More actions · Answer 1

I've always found cursors a really slow way of doing pretty much anything in SQL, to say nothing of being a horror to code if it's big enough.

There could be a fourth way. Create a temporary table containing the name and object_id values of every user table in the database. Then create a loop to do the following:

a. Select the name of the table object with the lowest object_id value;

b. Execute a string of dynamic SQL to count the number of rows in the table bearing the name that you retrieved in step 1;

c. Delete the record in the temporary table that you've just been looking at;

d. Repeat until the temporary table is empty;

You could refine it further by writing the result of the count into a new table (temporary or otherwise). Or even by adding an additional column to the original temporary table and then updating that each time. The only difference is that you wouldn't delete the record once you'd finished with it, merely select the minimum object_id value as long as it was higher than the object_id value you'd just finished with.

Just a thought 🙂

dchappell-903283 Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 563 More actions · Answer 2

To expand on ianhenderson's way here is the loop without worrying about the lowest id and just grabbing the next one that doesn't have a count.

DECLARE @TableName VARCHAR(255);

SELECT TABLE_NAME AS TableName, null AS RowCnt

INTO #TempTableCounts

FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES

WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'base table';

WHILE (EXISTS(SELECT * FROM #TempTableCounts WHERE (RowCnt IS NULL))) BEGIN

SELECT TOP(1) @TableName = TableName FROM #tempTableCounts WHERE (RowCnt IS NULL);

EXEC ('UPDATE #TempTableCounts SET RowCnt = (SELECT count(*) FROM ' + @TableName + ') WHERE (TableName = ''' + @TableName + ''')');

END

SELECT TableName, RowCnt FROM #TempTableCounts;

DROP TABLE #TempTableCounts;

-David

ron.mcdowell SSC Enthusiast Points: 172 More actions · Answer 3

Does this seemingly simpler, and far faster, method produce accurate results?

SELECT name [Table], sum(row_count) AS [Rows]

FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats WITH (NOLOCK), sysobjects WITH (NOLOCK)

WHERE index_id < 2-- Just grab index 0 (heap) or 1 (cluster)

AND xtype = 'U'

AND object_id = object_id('' + name + '')

GROUP BY name

ianhenderson Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 597 More actions · Answer 4

Nice to see I started a healthy debate! I'm going to bear this stuff in mind - I'm always looking for smarter-running code!

dchappell-903283 Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 563 More actions · Answer 5

ron.mcdowell that is an awesome script. My initial testing shows it is significantly faster than my script and for all my tests it was accurate. Now I need to learn how/why it works 🙂

-David

akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 6

akljfhnlaflkj

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May 12, 2016 at 7:38 am

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Thanks for the script.