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    counting the number of records from multiple tables

    i have nearly 10 to 15 tables of names like %price1%

    i want an output of the form

    tablename count(*)
    ---------------------
    price1 200
    price2 335
    price3 634
    ...
    ...
    ..

    could someone help me to phrase a query.


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    Any replies to this please ....

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    Code:
    select 'price1' table_name, count(*) num_rows from price1
    union all
    select 'price2' table_name, count(*) num_rows from price2
    union all
    select 'price3' table_name, count(*) num_rows from price3
    union all
    ...
    order by 1
    David Aldridge,
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    Hi Dave,

    thanks for the reply, but in this case i want the table names to be framed up automatically by oracle, as there might be many tables also at times.

    any other alternates much appreciated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by perot
    Hi Dave,

    thanks for the reply, but in this case i want the table names to be framed up automatically by oracle, as there might be many tables also at times.

    any other alternates much appreciated.
    You can't directly select from a table without knowing the name of the table. You can use dynamic sql to create a query if you have a table that stores all of the tables you want to select from, you can also concatenate a bunch of stuff together and create a cursor to select from. how do you know what tables you want in the select?

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