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    <p>There are a lot of ways to do this, cursors, manual loops. There are likely ways to find what you want (meaning the answer to your mystery query) in a set based way. Either way, as phrased you'll need dynamic sql. </p> <p><strong>Option 1 - a so/so method</strong> </p> <pre><code>SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @Views as TABLE (Object_id int, name nvarchar(200)); INSERT INTO @Views (Object_ID, name) SELECT Object_ID, name FROM sys.views DECLARE @viewName nvarchar(200) = (select top 1 name from @Views); DECLARE @sql nvarchar(max) = ''; WHILE(Exists(select 1 from @Views)) BEGIN SET @sql = 'select count(*) FROM ' + @ViewName +';' --exec(@sql); --careful you're not accepting user input here! Print (@sql); DELETE FROM @Views where name = @viewName; SET @ViewName = (select top 1 name from @Views); END; </code></pre> <p><strong>Option 2 - A More Resilient Method</strong><br> <em>While trying this out in my little test DB I realized my first solution (as well as all the others) have a potential issue.</em> Views <em>can</em> become out of date --meaning underlying objects change like a column rename. All of the others solutions will throw an error and stop processing. If you're doing large/long queries this may be undesirable. So I added a smidge of error handling to note the error and continue on processing.</p> <pre><code>SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @ViewCount int = 0; DECLARE @Counter int = 0; DECLARE @sql nvarchar(max) = ''; DECLARE @viewName nvarchar(200) = '' DECLARE @Views as TABLE ( rownum int identity(1,1), name nvarchar(200), Primary Key clustered (rownum) ); INSERT INTO @Views (name) SELECT name FROM sys.views; SET @ViewCount = SCOPE_IDENTITY(); WHILE(@Counter &lt; @ViewCount) BEGIN SET @Counter = @Counter+1; SELECT @sql = 'select count(*) FROM ' + name +';', @viewName = name FROM @Views WHERE rownum = @Counter; BEGIN TRY -- exec(@sql); --careful you're not accepting user input here! Print (@sql); END TRY BEGIN CATCH Print ('ERROR querying view - ' + @viewname + ' // ' + ERROR_MESSAGE()); END CATCH END; </code></pre>
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    1. COthank you. I will try this code sample out and get back to your asap.
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    2. COthe second method looks great. I was in the process of trying out your first but i am going to stop there and just try this second one. I will let you know how it goes in a few minutes. Thanks!
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    3. COi have accepted your answer. Thank you very much for your input. I am working with TBs of data in each view and very much needed to figure out how to get around out of date data. The error handling works great!
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