How To Get Table Row Counts Quickly And Painlessly
Use sysindexes\DMVs insead of select count(*) to retreive table row counts
2011-01-28 (first published: 2009-09-02)
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Kendal Van Dyke
Introducing MagicPASS - Orlando's New PASS Chapter
After a year of planning I'm proud to announce that South Orlando has a new PASS chapter: MagicPASS! Our first...
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Resolutions For 2011
This post is a part of T-SQL Tuesday, a monthly event where SQL bloggers post about a common topic. This...
2011-01-11
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Presenting At SQLSaturday #62 - Tampa
Even though I live in Orlando - just a hop, skip, and jump away from Tampa - I've missed their SQLSaturday for...
2011-01-05
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SQLRally Session Voting Schedule Change
Jack Corbett posted the official announcement to his blog - I'm posting here as well to make sure we reach as...
2011-01-04
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2010 Goals Review
I started the year with 10 Goals for 2010 and now I'll end it by looking at how many of...
2010-12-31
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PASS Summit 2010 Session Eval Results
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Social Leadership And The SQL Community
2010 is rapidly coming to a close and in retrospect this has been a fantastic year of growth for the...
2010-12-17
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2010 PASS Summit Slide Decks and Scripts
How time flies - it really has been almost 2 1\2 weeks since the 2010 PASS Summit came to a close!...
2010-11-30
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2010 PASS Summit Recap
The 2010 PASS Summit has been over for a week and a half now and I've finally recovered & processed everything...
2010-11-23
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers