How do you find the number of rows in a table?
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Answer / uma lakshman
Hokar, You are right. But using count(*) is not optimal.
I wud suggest going for sysindexes table to find the number
of rows in a particular table.
SELECT rows FROM sysindexes WHERE id = OBJECT_ID
('table_name')
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Answer / kumar.t
Select Rows From SysIndexes Where Id = Object_Id
('tablename') And IndId<2
Uma Lakshman answer is wrong.
It Is Correct Answer
By
Kumar.T
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Answer / raghuram
the question is how do find number of rows in a table?
select count(*) from table_name
by using this we will get exact number of rows in a table.
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Answer / anand
select count(*) from table_name will hold good if there isn't any WHERE clause in it as it is a AGGREGATE Function.. (just additional information)
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Answer / manoj savalia
Try This
SELECT SYS_OBJ.NAME AS "TABLE NAME"
, SYS_INDX.ROWCNT AS "ROW COUNT"
FROM SYSOBJECTS SYS_OBJ, SYSINDEXES SYS_INDX
WHERE SYS_INDX.ID = SYS_OBJ.ID
AND INDID IN(0,1)
AND XTYPE = 'U'
AND SYS_OBJ.NAME <> 'SYSDIAGRAMS'
AND SYS_INDX.ROWCNT>0
ORDER BY SYS_INDX.rowcnt DESC
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select @@rowcount
select count(*) from tablename
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 7 No |
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