SQL count rows in a table

Question

I need to send a SQL query to a database that tells me how many rows there are in a table. I could get all the rows in the table with a SELECT and then count them, but I don

Answer 1

Why don't you just right click on the table and then properties -> Storage and it would tell you the row count. You can use the below for row count in a view

SELECT SUM (row_count) 
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats 
WHERE object_id=OBJECT_ID('Transactions')    
AND (index_id=0 or index_id=1)`