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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:19:22 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Bo Lorentsen <bl@netgroup.dk>
Cc: Russell Simpkins <russellsimpkins@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Number of rows in a cursor ?
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:50:07PM +0200, Bo Lorentsen wrote:
> Russell Simpkins wrote:
> >If you need a count, why not just execute one of the methods to get a 
> >count. i.e.e select count(id) ...
> 
> The reason why i don't  just make a count and then a selection of data 
> is performance.

...which is the same reason a cursor doesn't know how many rows it will
fetch until you fetch them all (or MOVE to the end of the cursor,
which fetches the rows internally).

-- 
Michael Fuhr