SQL allows for sqlca.sqlerrd[0] to yield valuable information regarding how many rows were affected by a DELETE or an UPDATE statement. This is useful to verify that a DELETE on a given primary key really matched a row, or even better, get the exact count of deleted rows.
I just came through the following CQL document : https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/native_protocol.spec;hb=refs/heads/cassandra-1.2. It looks like the CQL native protocol doesn't handle such error/return codes. Any comment appreciated ! BR Sekine