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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Counting number of rows
Venu
Do you have any indexes on this table with NOT NULL? Count(*) will use index if there is a not-null index or a bitmapped index (nulls are incorporated in the bitmapped index).
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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From: Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt) [mailto:venu_potluri_at_ml.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:28 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Counting number of rows
Is there a quick way to count number of rows in a table? Don't want to do select count(*) from..... on a table (such as GL_BALANCES) with more than 250 million rows.
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