> I wonder if you know that the X table
> have 6349865 records make you more happy!

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> 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?
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>> There is no way to know about
>> row number efficiently.
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> 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.
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> [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 .
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> Regards,
> Paul
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