Re: number of rows

Am Fre, 2003-06-13 um 11.04 schrieb Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes:
> Does anybody here know a better way to count a table's number
> of rows, besides select count (*) from tablename?
>
> I mean, is there any internal variable that stores the number of
> rows instead of sequencially scanning the entire database??

Not in SQL itself, but the app could do that (PHP, CMS, whatever)

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