Script that provides the row counts and table names
-- Shows all user tables and row counts for the current database
-- Remove OBJECTPROPERTY function call to include system objects
SELECT o.NAME,
i.rowcnt
FROM sysindexes AS i
INNER JOIN sysobjects AS o ON i.id = o.id
WHERE i.indid < 2 AND OBJECTPROPERTY(o.id, 'IsMSShipped') = 0
ORDER BY o.NAME
If you're on SQL Server 2005 or newer (you unfortunately didn't specify which version of SQL Server you're using), this query should give you that information:
SELECT
TableName = t.NAME,
TableSchema = s.Name,
RowCounts = p.rows
FROM
sys.tables t
INNER JOIN
sys.schemas s ON t.schema_id = s.schema_id
INNER JOIN
sys.indexes i ON t.OBJECT_ID = i.object_id
INNER JOIN
sys.partitions p ON i.object_id = p.OBJECT_ID AND i.index_id = p.index_id
WHERE
t.is_ms_shipped = 0
GROUP BY
t.NAME, s.Name, p.Rows
ORDER BY
s.Name, t.Name
This produces an output something like (this is from AdventureWorks
):
TableName TableSchema RowCounts
AWBuildVersion dbo 1
DatabaseLog dbo 1597
ErrorLog dbo 0
Department HumanResources 16
Employee HumanResources 290
JobCandidate HumanResources 13
Address Person 19614
AddressType Person 6
... and so on......