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SQL Server Row Count for all Tables in a Database

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Problem I am a database tester and one of my tasks involves getting row counts from all the tables in the source database and comparing it against the corresponding table row counts in the target database. How do I get the row counts from all the tables in a SQL Server Database? What are the different approaches to get this information?  Check out this tip to get these questions and more answered. Solution It is a common step in any  ETL project  to validate the row counts between source and target databases as part of the  testing  phase. Getting the row count from each table one by one and comparing and consolidating the results can be a tedious task. Hence any script/solution which can get the row count information from all the tables in a database can be really helpful and effective thereby considerably reducing the effort involved. In this tip we will see four different approaches to get the row counts from all the tables in a SQL Server database. Let's take a look at each of