>
> is there really no resource-friendly, fast&simple way to find out how
> many rows a query could return, without weeding thru all the rows - i
> somehow doubt that websites that claim "we have 1.234.678 [whatever]
> registered in our database" run thru their whole database
> every time. my
> is that they store the number of entries every time they do
> an "INSERT",
> but still...
$rows = $dbh->selectrow_array("SELECT COUNT(foo) FROM bar");
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