Re: Need a Fast Row Count

What about:

1. select max(rownum) from table;

or

2) select count( <indexed_column> ) from table

Gary Brumfield wrote:
>
> 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 CET