When you want to make a decent user interface with scrollbars that actually
reflects the amount of data and/or display progress status then it is
necessary to know the record count.

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SMN

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: 6. maj 2004 09:22
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Count(*) on big tables
>
> At 10:09 AM 6/05/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >This is such a good idea, that one wonders why it isn't
> integrated into
> >Firebird in a transparent way. I mean, finding out the number of
> >records in a table doesn't seem to me to be such a luxery... :-) A
> >solution like this would certainly make every day life much easier.
>
> Easier, in what way? what do you actually *need* a record
> count for? What is its "meaning", in a multi-user system, if
> it is likely to be out of date before your transaction is
> even finished? Just curious...
>
> /heLen
>
>
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