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MichaelJasson

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:46 PM

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Hello Team,

I am trying to find out the name of the user tables in my database where the number of rows is less than 100. I am using following command to find this.

I am not good at writing queries. Can you guide me how to become proficient in writing good sql queries. Query as follows can give you a glimplse as how bad I am in writing the sql queries.

select n.name, n.count(1)
(
select count(1) from name
)
from sysobjects n where xtype = 'u'
and n.count(1) < 100

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Michael

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Michael Earl-395764

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:42 PM

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For a quick solution, you can check the row count of the indexes on the tables rather than counting the actual rows.

SELECT
SO.Name
, SI.RowCnt
FROM
SysObjects SO
LEFT JOIN SysIndexes SI ON SO.ID = SI.ID AND SI.IndID = 1
WHERE
SO.Type = 'u'
AND (SI.RowCnt IS NULL OR SI.RowCnt < 100)

This will return the tables with less than 100 rows and any tables without any indexes will have a rowcount of NULL.

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happycat59

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:36 PM

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A more accurate query is...
SELECT
SO.Name
, SI.RowCnt
FROM
SysObjects SO
INNER JOIN SysIndexes SI ON SO.ID = SI.ID
WHERE
SO.Type = 'u'
AND (SI.RowCnt IS NULL OR SI.RowCnt < 100) -- nto 100% sure but I think rowcnt will never be null
and SI.IndID IN (0, 1)

A table will only have one record in SYSINDEXES with a value of either 0 or 1. This simply depends on whether (or not) the table has a clustered index.

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Michael Earl-395764

Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 4:15 AM

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happycat - you would need to move your additional criteria into the join.

SELECT
SO.Name
, SI.RowCnt
FROM
SysObjects SO
INNER JOIN SysIndexes SI ON SO.ID = SI.ID and SI.IndID IN (0, 1)
WHERE
SO.Type = 'u'
AND (SI.RowCnt IS NULL OR SI.RowCnt < 100) -- nto 100% sure but I think rowcnt will never be null

The NULL condition is to handle tables with no indexes. I wanted to make sure the query did not ignore heaps, so it returns rows with no sysindexes entries.

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Abhijit More

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:42 AM

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select distinct object_name(object_id) as Table, rows
from sys.partitions where index_id >= 1
and object_name(object_id) not like 'sys%'
and rows > 100

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Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:02 AM

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Abhijit More (1/13/2009)

select distinct object_name(object_id) as Table, rows
from sys.partitions where index_id >= 1
and object_name(object_id) not like 'sys%'
and rows > 100

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'Table'.

Also, yours would miss tables that had no indexes at all, count system tables whos names don't start with sys (service broker queues as an example) and miss user tables that do start with sys

select object_name(object_id) as TableName, rows
from sys.partitions 
where index_id in (0,1) -- heap or clustered index. No point in counting the nonclusters
and OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, 'IsMSShipped')=0 --  Don't want any system tables, do want user tables that may start with sys
and rows < 100

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MichaelJasson

Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:49 PM

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Thanks so much. Somehow I am not able to run the command. I am sure that you would have got the correct result of your respective queries ...

Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Invalid object name 'sys.partitions'.

select @@version:
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2050 (Intel X86) Mar 7 2008 21:29:56 Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 1)

select * from sysobjects where name like '%partition%' --> No row is selected

Your query is good for 2005 but what should I do for 2000 Sad

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GilaMonster

Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009 2:06 PM

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Please post SQL 2000-related questions in the SQL 2000 forums. If you post in the 2005 forums, you're very likely to get 2005-specific solutions. All this does is waste everyone's time.

For SQL 2000, use sysindexes. I'm not writing the entire query for you. The idea is the same as with sys.partitions, the column names differ.

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