I've used a script to create a view that has the table name for every table in a database, along with the number of rows of data in the respective table. Everything works fine with SELECT *
. However, I'd like to query only certain rows, but I can't seem to do that.
The view was created with the following script (credit to DatabaseZone.com for the script):
CREATE VIEW RowCount_AllTables
AS
SELECT DISTINCT
sys.schemas.name, sys.tables.name AS tableName,
sys.dm_db_partition_stats.row_count AS 'RowCount'
FROM
sys.tables
INNER JOIN
sys.dm_db_partition_stats ON sys.tables.object_id = sys.dm_db_partition_stats.object_id
INNER JOIN
sys.schemas ON sys.tables.schema_id = sys.schemas.schema_id
WHERE
(sys.tables.is_ms_shipped = 0)
When I run Select *
against the resulting view, I get results such as:
name tableName RowCount
dbo Table1 2
dbo Table2 1230
dbo Table3 0
If I query just the tableName column, that works fine and returns the table names. However, if I try to query the RowCount column as well, I get the error message Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'RowCount
. This happens regardless of whether I qualify the database -- it seems to not recognize RowCount
as a valid column that I can call in a query. So this script fails:
SELECT RowCount
FROM RowCount_AllTables;
But this one works:
SELECT tableName
FROM RowCount_AllTables;
What's going on? I'd like to be able to alias the column names in the view in my query but I can't do that so long as I can't reference the RowCount
column.
(FYI running this in SQL Server 2014)
Rowcount
is a reserved word: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189822.aspx