Hello André,

Wednesday, July 6, 2005, 3:25:37 PM, you wrote:

AM> Depending on the sittuation, IMHO, COUNT(*) wouldn't be the way to
AM> go. If you need the user's id or somesuch, you have to run an
AM> additional query to get the info.

But they're returning absolutely nothing in this case - which
(providing username was indexed) would make count() a far quicker and
less expensive query than selecting and bring back data and then doing
absolutely nothing with it (somewhat pointless imho)

Best regards,

Richard Davey
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