[dba-SQLServer] Get a count inside of a stored procedure

Francisco Tapia fhtapia at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 21:05:12 CDT 2012


Try this approach:

http://sqlthis.blogspot.com/2011/01/lighting-quick-table-rowcounts-for-your.html?m=1

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On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:08 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

> In a stored procedure I need to get a count of the records in a table where the table name is passed in to the SP.
>
> I tried:
>
> DECLARE @RecordCnt int
>
>    SELECT @RecordCnt = Count([Column 0]) FROM @TblName
>
> Where @TblName is the passed in table name.
>
> This fails telling me that I have to declare a table variable @TblName
>
> Is there a simple way to do what I am trying to do?
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> John W. Colby
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