One question that is natural to ask is why you want this count. Sometimes
it is of course neccessary, but in general people coming from a desktop
database background tend to desire row counts excessively. Tell us the
background and you may get more helpful answers to alternatives to counting
all rows.

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At 18:26 26.05.2003 -0300, you wrote:

>:. What is the fastest way to count records in large tables? Or is there a
>way to count faster the records of a table?