[oracle] Get counts of all tables in a schema

I am trying to get the record counts of all tables in a schema. I am having trouble writing the PL/SQL. Here is what I have done so far, but I am getting errors. Please suggest any changes:

DECLARE
v_owner varchar2(40);
v_table_name varchar2(40);

cursor get_tables is
select distinct table_name,user
from user_tables
where lower(user) = 'SCHEMA_NAME';


begin

open get_tables;
fetch get_tables into v_table_name,v_owner;

    INSERT INTO STATS_TABLE(TABLE_NAME,SCHEMA_NAME,RECORD_COUNT,CREATED)
    SELECT v_table_name,v_owner,COUNT(*),TO_DATE(SYSDATE,'DD-MON-YY') FROM         v_table_name;

CLOSE get_tables;

END;

If you want simple SQL for Oracle (e.g. have XE with no XmlGen) go for a simple 2-step:

select ('(SELECT ''' || table_name || ''' as Tablename,COUNT(*) FROM "' || table_name || '") UNION') from USER_TABLES;

Copy the entire result and replace the last UNION with a semi-colon (';'). Then as the 2nd step execute the resulting SQL.

Get counts of all tables in a schema and order by desc

select 'with tmp(table_name, row_number) as (' from dual 
union all 
select 'select '''||table_name||''',count(*) from '||table_name||' union  ' from USER_TABLES 
union all
select 'select '''',0 from dual) select table_name,row_number from tmp order by row_number desc ;' from dual;

Copy the entire result and execute

You have to use execute immediate (dynamic sql).

DECLARE 
v_owner varchar2(40); 
v_table_name varchar2(40); 
cursor get_tables is 
select distinct table_name,user 
from user_tables 
where lower(user) = 'schema_name'; 
begin 
open get_tables; 
loop
    fetch get_tables into v_table_name,v_owner; 
    EXIT WHEN get_tables%NOTFOUND;
    execute immediate 'INSERT INTO STATS_TABLE(TABLE_NAME,SCHEMA_NAME,RECORD_COUNT,CREATED) 
    SELECT ''' || v_table_name || ''' , ''' || v_owner ||''',COUNT(*),TO_DATE(SYSDATE,''DD-MON-YY'')     FROM ' || v_table_name; 
end loop;
CLOSE get_tables; 
END; 

select owner, table_name, num_rows, sample_size, last_analyzed from all_tables;

This is the fastest way to retrieve the row counts but there are a few important caveats:

1. NUM_ROWS is only 100% accurate if statistics were gathered in 11g and above with ESTIMATE_PERCENT => DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE (the default), or in earlier versions with ESTIMATE_PERCENT => 100. See this post for an explanation of how the AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE algorithm works in 11g.
2. Results were generated as of LAST_ANALYZED, the current results may be different.

This can be done with a single statement and some XML magic:

select table_name, 
       to_number(extractvalue(xmltype(dbms_xmlgen.getxml('select count(*) c from '||owner||'.'||table_name)),'/ROWSET/ROW/C')) as count
from all_tables
where owner = 'FOOBAR'