>
> As far as the syntax analyser determines that it should return the
> number of all rows,
> (no WHERE clause), the engine should be able to get this number
> directly in the database
> where it should be stored.
Why should it be stored in the database?
> Any decent database engine must keep somewhere the current record
> number in every table,
> without having to count them.
Why must it do so? Isn't that a lot of overhead?
Jochem
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