下面的SQL语句将得到数据库中所有表的行数:

CREATE TABLE #counts
(
    table_name varchar(255),
    row_count int
)

EXEC sp_MSForEachTable @command1='INSERT #counts (table_name, row_count) SELECT ''?'', COUNT(*) FROM ?'
SELECT table_name, row_count FROM #counts ORDER BY table_name, row_count DESC
DROP TABLE #counts

输出将是一个表列表及其行数。

如果你只想要整个数据库的总行数，追加:

SELECT SUM(row_count) AS total_row_count FROM #counts

将获得整个数据库中总行数的单个值。

这是我最喜欢的SQL 2008解决方案，它将结果放入一个“TEST”临时表，我可以使用它来排序并获得我需要的结果:

SET NOCOUNT ON 
DBCC UPDATEUSAGE(0) 
DROP TABLE #t;
CREATE TABLE #t 
( 
[name] NVARCHAR(128),
[rows] CHAR(11),
reserved VARCHAR(18), 
data VARCHAR(18), 
index_size VARCHAR(18),
unused VARCHAR(18)
) ;
INSERT #t EXEC sp_msForEachTable 'EXEC sp_spaceused ''?''' 
SELECT * INTO TEST FROM #t;
DROP TABLE #t;
SELECT  name, [rows], reserved, data, index_size, unused FROM TEST \
WHERE ([rows] > 0) AND (name LIKE 'XXX%')

短而甜

sp_MSForEachTable 'DECLARE @t AS VARCHAR(MAX); 
SELECT @t = CAST(COUNT(1) as VARCHAR(MAX)) 
+ CHAR(9) + CHAR(9) + ''?'' FROM ? ; PRINT @t'

输出:

SELECT 
    sc.name +'.'+ ta.name TableName, SUM(pa.rows) RowCnt
FROM 
    sys.tables ta
INNER JOIN sys.partitions pa
    ON pa.OBJECT_ID = ta.OBJECT_ID
INNER JOIN sys.schemas sc
    ON ta.schema_id = sc.schema_id
WHERE ta.is_ms_shipped = 0 AND pa.index_id IN (1,0)
GROUP BY sc.name,ta.name
ORDER BY SUM(pa.rows) DESC

    SELECT
          SUM(sdmvPTNS.row_count) AS [DBRows]
    FROM
          sys.objects AS sOBJ
          INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_partition_stats AS sdmvPTNS
                ON sOBJ.object_id = sdmvPTNS.object_id
    WHERE 
          sOBJ.type = 'U'
          AND sOBJ.is_ms_shipped = 0
          AND sdmvPTNS.index_id < 2
    GO

SQL Server 2005或更高版本提供了一个相当不错的报告，显示表大小-包括行数等。这是在标准报告-它是光盘使用表。

在编程上，有一个很好的解决方案: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/67624/