> SELECT COUNT(*) might be okay with Desktop-databases, maybe even

with

> Oracle or MSSQL, but it should be used rarely (if at all) with

IB/FB due

> to the multiple generation architecture -
> count (*) is not written somewhere in a header of a table - it has

to be

> evaluated every time you call it and this means that the table has

to be

> scanned totally (which makes it quite slow).

I don't know why not use the count in my table. I dont use
the "select *". I only use the computed by column when it's really
necessary.