SELECT SUM (row_count) AS total_number_of_rows
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats
WHERE object_id=OBJECT_ID(‘HumanResources.Employee’) AND (index_id=0 or index_id=1);

That query handles multiple partitions, and handles the schema name correctly. It will show the results for a heap, or a table with a primary key. This has been mentioned in the comments a few times, and you say “thanks”, but it would help if you could update the article itself! The code in the article is not quite correct.

David Walker

Using your above query, it gives duplicate table names if the tables are partitioned.

How about the below one..

SELECT
OBJECT_NAME(P.[object_id]) AS [Table Name]
,SUM(rows) AS [No. of rows]

FROM sys.partitions AS P
INNER JOIN sys.tables AS T
ON T.[object_id] = P.[object_id]

WHERE index_id IN (0,1) AND T.[type] = ‘U’
GROUP BY P.[object_id]
ORDER BY 2 DESC

Thank you..

Thank you

Your query does not take account of the Schema name. There can be tables having same name but different schema in a database. Also if a table is partitioned, you want to get one row of result 1.e; sum of rows in different partitions. So I have a modified query that I use.

select sc.name +’.'+ ta.name
,sum(pa.rows) — Approximate value, oh well
from sys.tables ta
inner join sys.partitions pa
on pa.object_id = ta.object_id
inner join sys.schemas sc
on ta.schema_id = sc.schema_id
where ta.is_ms_shipped = 0 AND pa.index_id IN (1,0)
group by sc.name,ta.name
ORDER BY sum(pa.rows) DESC

DBCC updateusage(dbname)

for correct result

See this
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/11/02/different-ways-to-count-rows-from-a-table.aspx

Update table
Set Grade=NULL

Do you mind reading the post, for which you have written a comment.

Please read Pinal Dave post on this web page.

~IM.

How can I retrieve the rows of a table where any column of the row contains NULL, while I have no knowledge about the any column name of the table

select count(@@rowcount) from TableName

i was talking to my brother about this post, and as other readers we proved this script not to work on SQL Server 2000, because this older DBMS does not have the object sys.dm_db_partition_stats :(

Fortunally we came up with this little alternative scrit that works (we think) perfectly on both DBMS.

Tell us what you think about it, and what are the pros and cons vs the one you posted.
Thanks in advance ;)

SELECT OBJECT_NAME(id),rowcnt
FROM SYSINDEXES
WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(id,’isUserTable’)=1 AND indid < 2
ORDER BY rowcnt DESC

Best Regards,
Afonso.