Quick row count

When COUNT(*) was too slow to get total rows from a billion row heap …

SELECT MAX(REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), 
       CONVERT(MONEY, rowcnt), 1), '.00', '')) [rows]
FROM sys.sysindexes
WHERE OBJECT_NAME(id) = 'TableName';

Original code from here …

https://www.i-programmer.info/programming/database/6576-sql-server-quickly-get-row-counts-for-tables-heaps-indexes-and-partitions.html

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