select count from table code example

Example 1: sql query to get the number of rows in a table

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tablename

Example 2: sql count

/*COUNT(column_name) will return the number of rows from the column 
that are not NULL*/
SELECT COUNT(column_name)
FROM table_name;

/*COUNT(*) will return the number of rows from the table*/
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM table_name;

Example 3: how to count number of rows in sql

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dbo.bigTransactionHistory;