Re: Finding total Rows without count() ?

Ken,

How about the psuedo column ROWNUM?

Select max(ROWNUM) from yourtable

Hopefully MAX() is faster than COUNT()

The only other kludge I can think of is adding a column filled with 1s (ONE) and doing a count on it.

Select COUNT(ONE) from yourtable.

Dave

Ken Sproule <kenmn_at_tds.net> wrote in message news:brrd5s8pcpj2mo80gbjtsc2mmf99n7ppcc_at_4ax.com...
> As always, thanks in advance for your help.
>
> I need a fast way to determine the total number of rows in a table. I
> assume somewhere Oracle stores such information about its tables.
> Where is it?
>
> The count() type syntaxes take much too long on tables of say 3+
> million rows, so I'm looking for a fast way to accomplish it.
>
> Post answers to the group, as others might be interested also.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Sproule
> kenmn_at_tds.net
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 14 1999 - 23:26:07 CST