Finding Rowcount problem

  • Guys/Gals

    I have a handy little proc that nips round the production dbs and stores the rowcounts/datasizes for each table in a table.  This has been fine for some time, but 1 table has now got a slight problem.

    I use the sysindexes.rows column for the task.

    However, both this value and sp_spaceused (which iirc uses si.rows) have had the rather tragic answer of 2,147,483,647 for a couple of weeks now.  EM agrees.  Now I know that we are adding just shy of 30m records a day.

     

    My question is how do I get a rowcount for this table now?

     

    Cheers

  • Use DBCC UPDATEUSAGE... see Books Online for the details... you can do the whole database, a single table, or a single index.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • Ahaha ok, it seems there is a rowcnt column as well as a rows column,  rowcnt is bigint rows is only int.

    I shall mod my procs to use rowcnt where rows is not ok.

     

    Cheers all.

     

  • Um... I think you really need to use the DBCC proc I told you about as part of normal maintenance, anyway.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • Its not viable.  Pretty much anything (including count(*)) on this table provokes instability, and it takes 30m inserts a day, mission critical.  The pure and simple problem is that the rows column in sysindexes iirc is where the sp_spaceused gets its data is only an Int, and I now have more rows than that handles.  Rowcnt is a bigint and works fine.  Ta for the help tho.

  • Ah... sorry.  Didn't read the whole thing.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

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