Works great on a 46 million row table I've got.

>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.
>>>
>>>He tried SELECT COUNT(*) AS TOTRECS FROM MASTER_EVENT
>>>
>>>And it takes FOREVER to get a count because the record has around 12 Million Records.
>>>
>>>How to speed this up?????
>>>
>>>Thanks!!!!
>>>
>>>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