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Re: count(*)

From: Anjo Kolk <anjo_at_oraperf.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:03:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004D4902.20020919230323@fatcity.com>


If you can live with 10 minutes, why not 60 minutes or 120 minutes ? Examine why this app feels so insecure that it needs to know the number of rows every 10 minutes.

On Thursday 19 September 2002 20:28, you wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
>
> In one of our insert intensive application we are inserting around 3-4
> million rows / hour. Also this app needs to do a count(*) of the tables
> every 10 minutes for verifying some application based logic. This is really
> killing us and it takes a lot of time.
>
> Can you please guide me to a direction ( built in functions or something
> similar).
>
> Actually this app is being ported from Informix. Informix can somehow keep
> a trak of the count(*) of a table in its header somewhere.
>
> And yes I have tries count(1) , count(indexed_column) etc.
>
>
> Thanks In Advance.
>
> R.h

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