On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Nadeem M. Khan <nadeem.m.k...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, > gouravjo...@gmail.com<gouravjoshi%40gmail.com> > <gouravjo...@gmail.com <gouravjoshi%40gmail.com>> wrote: > > > I would like you to visit topic "Script for counting entries in a mysql > database table" on Linux Questions, Help, Howtos and Tutorials. To view it, > please click this link: > > > > > http://www.linuxquestions.in/bash-scripting/script-for-counting-entries-in-a-mysql-database-table/ > > can't this be gotten by a simple > select count(*) from table_name; > ? > > Yes my friend, definitely you can do that way, but if someone have 100s number of tables and want the count then with this method do you think any system admin will waste time. Running this command manually will spare so much of time, where with this script you just have to tell the script which DB and it will give you output in a file which can be imported in spread sheet. This is just to make our work easier. That's it. Have a nice time, Gourav Joshi Have a look at www.linuxquestions.in [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxvadapav/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: linuxvadapav-dig...@yahoogroups.com linuxvadapav-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: linuxvadapav-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
