mos, Thursday, May 02, 2002, 8:11:33 AM, you wrote: m> I have a Where clause like: m> select count(*) from table where .... LIMIT 100
m> Unfortunately the Count(*) ignores the LIMIT clause entirely. Why? Because first of all SELECT is executed and then LIMIT is applied. m> It seems to me that if a "select * from table where ... limit 100" returns m> between 0 and 100 rows, you should be able to count it. You can use functions that are present in programming languages (f.e. mysql_num_rows() in C API). m> Instead the count m> returns 55,000 or some ridiculously large number that has no bearing on the m> # of rows that will actually be returned (because of the LIMIT clause). m> Since this is running on a webserver, I don't want it to physically count m> more than 100 rows. Some of the tables may be over 1 million rows and m> counting that many rows when only 100 rows are returned is overkill. m> Is there a way around this counting problem? The only solution I've come up m> with is to traverse all the rows returned by counting them in a loop. This m> seems pretty lame and I'm hoping someone can come up with a better solution. m> Mike -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
