{"id":77,"date":"2012-09-16T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T17:38:06","slug":"sql-server-get-rowcount-of-all-tables-without-the-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server: Get RowCount Of All Tables Without the Overhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avoid overhead with this completely awesome SQL Server query that returns the row-count of all tables without actually having to query each table.  Instead, it just pulls from the statistics:<\/p>\n

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\nSELECT<\/span> <\/span>‘[‘<\/span> <\/span>+<\/span> <\/span>SCHEMA_NAME<\/span>(<\/span>t<\/span>.<\/span>schema_id<\/span>)<\/span>+<\/span> <\/span>‘].[‘<\/span> <\/span>+<\/span> t<\/span>.<\/span>name <\/span>+<\/span> <\/span>‘]’<\/span> <\/span>AS <\/span>full_name<\/span>,<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nSCHEMA_NAME<\/span>(<\/span>t<\/span>.<\/span>schema_id<\/span>)<\/span> <\/span>AS <\/span>schema_name,<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nt.<\/span>name AS<\/span> table_name,<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
\ni.<\/span>rows<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nFROM<\/span> sys<\/span>.<\/span>tables<\/span> AS<\/span> t INNER<\/span> JOIN<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nsys<\/span>.<\/span>sysindexes<\/span> AS<\/span> i ON<\/span> t.<\/span>object_id<\/span> =<\/span>i.<\/span>id AND<\/span> i.<\/span>indid <<\/span> 2<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avoid overhead with this completely awesome SQL Server query that returns the row-count of all tables without actually having to query each table.  Instead, it just pulls from the statistics: SELECT ‘[‘ + SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id)+ ‘].[‘ + t.name + ‘]’ AS full_name, SCHEMA_NAME(t.schema_id) AS schema_name, t.name AS table_name, i.rows FROM sys.tables AS t INNER JOIN sys.sysindexes AS i ON t.object_id =i.id AND i.indid < 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}