El día Thu, 18 May 2006 12:51:10 +0200
Verena Ruff <lists@triosolutions.at> escribió:
> sometimes I have queries with a LIMIT statement. Now I'd like to present
> the user the returned records and inform him how many records there are
> if there was no LIMIT statement. Is it possible to get all neccessary
> information with one query?
> This works:
> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 20
> SELECT count(*) FROM table
> But is it possible to have one query returning both, the records and the
> count?
A surely _INEFFICIENT_ way of doing it:
SELECT t.*,c.count FROM table AS t FULL OUTER JOIN (SELECT count(*) FROM
table) AS c ON true LIMIT 20;
This will add a 'count' column at the end of each row (with the same value for all).
But I do not get the point of the query.
Regards,
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Oscar