How do you find the number of rows in a table?

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

Answer / hokar

select count(*) from tablename.

Is This Answer Correct ?    27 Yes 2 No

How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

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')

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 3 No

How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

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

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 3 No

How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

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.

Is This Answer Correct ?    10 Yes 1 No

How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

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)

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 0 No

How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

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

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 0 No

How do you find the number of rows in a table?..

Answer / elumalai.k

select @@rowcount
select count(*) from tablename

Is This Answer Correct ?    5 Yes 7 No

Post New Answer

More SQL Server Interview Questions

You have several tables, and they are joined together for querying. The tables contain both clustered indexes and non clustered indexes to optimize performance, how should you distribute the tables and their indexes onto different file groups?

0 Answers  


Define outer join?

0 Answers  


How to select nth record from a table?

13 Answers   DELL, Microsoft, Ramco,


How many triggers you can have on a table?

0 Answers  


Can group by be used without aggregate functions?

0 Answers  






Explain linked server in sql?

0 Answers  


Alternative way to DetDate() function?

5 Answers  


What is compression - row-level and page-level compression?

0 Answers  


How to count duplicated values in a column in ms sql server?

0 Answers  


What are the restrictions applicable while creating views? : SQL Server Architecture

0 Answers  


Explain the architecture of SQL Server?

2 Answers   ABC, HP, Oracle,


Can we write a distributed query and get some data which is located on other server and oracle database?

0 Answers  


Categories