Normally in SQL you don't know the number of rows until you collect them.
If you actually need to know before hand, issue the "SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE
..." call, you'll get a result set with one integer result that is the
number of rows that a select with the same where clause will return.
(*Chris*)
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> I've got a servlet that's succesfully connecting to a SQL database
> (mySQL). I'm able to put data into and get data out of the database with
> no probelms. I'm interesting in getting the numbers of records found in a
> ResultSet object. Anyone know of a method in the java.sql.ResultSet()
> class or the java.sql.Statement() class (or any other class) that will
> return the number of found records in a ResultSet Object.
>
> -Nash
>
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