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Re: What to Count - WAS Re: Newbie ? - Howto find nbr records in a table

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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 21:36:20 GMT
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:58:34 -0400, "Van Messner"
<vmessner_at_netaxis.com> wrote:



>I've been following this thread.  In the old days I was told to always use


>count(rowid).  Any thoughts?





I believe count(*) is the fastest after the count(index_key). Maybe
Oracle implicitely uses count(rowid) in that case.






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