rowcount-big-transact-sql.md

title	ROWCOUNT_BIG (Transact-SQL)
description	ROWCOUNT_BIG (Transact-SQL)
author	MikeRayMSFT
ms.author	mikeray
ms.date	03/13/2017
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f1_keywords	ROWCOUNT_BIG ROWCOUNT_BIG_TSQL
helpviewer_keywords	ROWCOUNT_BIG function number of rows affected by statement row affected by statements [SQL Server] statements [SQL Server], last statement counting rows
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ROWCOUNT_BIG (Transact-SQL)

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Returns the number of rows affected by the last statement executed. This function operates like @@ROWCOUNT, except the return type of ROWCOUNT_BIG is bigint.

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Syntax

ROWCOUNT_BIG ( )  

Return Types

bigint

Remarks

Following a SELECT statement, this function returns the number of rows returned by the SELECT statement.

Following an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement, this function returns the number of rows affected by the data modification statement.

Following statements that do not return rows, such as an IF statement, this function returns 0.

See Also

COUNT_BIG (Transact-SQL)
Data Types (Transact-SQL)