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
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Resolutions For 2011
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SQLRally Session Voting Schedule Change
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2010 Goals Review
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Permissions Removal When Changing Object Schema
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The Distance Metric
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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