Thanks for the info!

>>A friend of mine, here is trying to get a count of how many records are in a SQL table in MS-SQL.
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>>He tried SELECT COUNT(*) AS TOTRECS FROM MASTER_EVENT
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>>And it takes FOREVER to get a count because the record has around 12 Million Records.
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>>How to speed this up?????
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>>Thanks!!!!
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>>Tommy
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>If you've never had any records deleted, you could use something like this if you have an identity field:
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>SELECT TOP 1 LogID AS TotalRecs FROM tblLog ORDER BY LogID DESC