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
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
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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...
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2010 PASS Summit Slide Decks and Scripts
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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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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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