Subject Re: [firebird-support] What programming languages and toolkits do you use to access Firebird?
Author Milan Babuskov
Daniel Albuschat wrote:
> - None I have seen so far give an indication of how many datasets
> exist in the result set (i.e. by sizing the scroll-bar appropriately).

I'd rather use the word 'records' because 'dataset' means the same thing
as 'result set'.

> Even database-managers that should be very sophisticated in this task,
> often fail in this regard.

This is because 'select count()' is slow in most cases. There is no way
to know about row number efficiently.


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