Counting rows for all tables at once

Question

I\'m using SQL Server 2005 and would like to know how I can get a list of all tables with the number of records in each.

I know I can get a list of tables using the

Answer 1

I might add that sysindexes.rows is an approximation of the number of rows. I'd run a DBCC UPDATEUSAGE if you need a more accurate value. We had this issue on a DB with tables containing over 47-50 million rows and we thought we'd lost around half a million from each of them.