You can update the row counts for current DB by running

DBCC UPDATEUSAGE(0) WITH COUNT_ROWS

>thought I was going crazy!
>
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>>There're two ways to get total records count in SQL Server table:
>>1. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mytable
>>Produces correct count but may take long on tables with a lot of records.
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>>2. SELECT rowcnt FROM sysindexes WHERE id=OBJECT_ID('dbo.mytable') and indid < 2
>>Fast but result isn't relaible because it's based on data stored in sysindexes tables which may or may not be current.
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>>Most likely SQL Server uses the second method because it's much faster on big tables.