agreed, that's part of the discussion I expect to have today with the
author of the code in question

On 14/09/2007, Kjell Rilbe <kjell@...> wrote:
> Yes, but you should probably use count(*) because that's what you mean.
> Using count(<fieldname>) requires you (someone else reading your code)
> to examine the nullability of <fieldname> to be able to determine if it
> will result in the same thing as count(*) or not.
>
> This is usually more important than you think - readability.
>
> Kjell
>
> Nick Upson wrote:
>
> > Thanks everyone, so if myfieldname is not nullable they will always be
> > equivalent
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