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Need a Fast Row Count

From: Gary Brumfield <g.brumfield_at_lmco.com>
Date: 2000/03/23
Message-ID: <38DA4117.74046877@lmco.com>#1/1 






Is there any other way than "select count(*) from <table>" to return the
number of rows in an Oracle table?  This takes forever to run (>3
minutes) on a table that has over 3 million rows.  I guess it has to do
a full table scan to determine the correct number of rows and in a read
consistent manner.  It would be OK even if we got a count that was
fairly close.



Any Ideas or Insight?
Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CST












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