For many-columned fixed length files I created and loaded this table:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Fixed_Length_Text_Files](
 [Line] [text] NULL,
 [Text_File_Id] [bigint] NULL,
 [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [Fixed_Length_Text_Files_ID] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
 [ID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]

Any way to get a row count on this table for a specific text_file_id?

Because of the text column, the result is always 0.

Thanks,

Jnana

Which column are you counting? Try:

SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM Fixed_Length_Text_Files

• Proposed as answer by Kalman TothModerator 15 hours 22 minutes ago

Select text_file_id, count(*) cnt
from [dbo].[Fixed_Length_Text_Files]
Group by  text_file_id

Select count(*) just gets 0, filtered or not.

Someone suggested Select count(1).

I'm going to try that.

Thanks,

Jnana