Nathan Nobbe wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Andrew Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That works; I'm just wondering why you went with a count on an 'ID' column
rather than COUNT(*).
ouch, it looks like im horribly wrong :O
mysql> select count(*) from table;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 361724 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.90 sec)
mysql> select count(id) from table;
+------------+
| count(did) |
+------------+
| 361724 |
+------------+
1 row in set (4.56 sec)
-nathan
The archive of my results was saved here:
http://phparch.cn/index.php/mysql/35-MySQL-programming/126-fastest-way-to-get-total-records-from-a-table
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