count(*) ?

From: nick <cupofjava1961_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:34:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <fd004033-65b0-4b5e-9c0b-419f281f6401@d21g2000prg.googlegroups.com>


I understand that when you feed the count( ) function an asterisk as an argument it runs
slower than if you use a column name as an argument. Can someone tell me why this is so?

Thanks Received on Tue Jan 15 2008 - 11:34:33 CST

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