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Loop through all the tables within a database to perform specific task using sp_MSforeachtable in SQL Server 2012 /2008

Beginning
There are some situation when we need to perform a specific task allmost every table within a database so we need to loop through
all tables in a database.Let we have to truncate those tables having name with a perticular prefix or we want to count rows of each table.
this article will give a tips to do this task easily using 'sp_MSforeachtable' Stored Procedure.

Details
'sp_MSforeachtable' Stored Procedure is an undocumented procedure takes place in 'master' database
Syntax of using 'sp_MSforeachtable'
use [database_name]
exec sp_MSforeachtable @command
@command is the command that has to be applied in each table

Example
To create a list of all tables with their row count you may create a user defined stored procedure as follows

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_RowCountForAllTables]

AS
BEGIN
   
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

DECLARE @TableRowCounts TABLE ([TableName] VARCHAR(128), [RowCount] INT) ;
INSERT INTO @TableRowCounts ([TableName], [RowCount])
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable 'SELECT ''?'' [TableName], COUNT(*) [RowCount] FROM ?' ;
SELECT [TableName], [RowCount]
FROM @TableRowCounts
ORDER BY [TableName]


END

GO

Output

TableName  | RowCount
------------------------------
tableName1  | 98
tableName2  | 0
tableName3  | 9
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