determining number of rows in a mysql table
| From: | Chris Wagner | Date: | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:12:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | determining number of rows in a mysql table | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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this should be easy...
how would one go about determining the number of rows in a mysql table,
without actually wasting the time of querying for *.
is this the best way?
$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM tablename');
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
does this actually take up time searching?
thanks.