From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
bartsmissaert@...
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 17:18
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] What programming languages and toolkits do
you use to access Firebird?

> There is no way to know about
> row number efficiently.

Just wonder, why can't databases keep track internally of the count of
table rows, so getting the number of rows would be instant.
Of course there would be some overhead in doing that, but I can't imagine
it is much.



[PM] I wonder if you know that the X table have 6349865 records make you
more happy!
A user don't want to know all this info, he/she need a subset from that
table, less than 200 records.
If you have that dataset you can look at count property .

Regards,
Paul



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