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Message Posted: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 @ 19:16:53 GMT

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<-- Anonymously Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 06:47 -->

All,

I need to know what is the least cost-effective method of getting the row count(assuming we have tables with more than a billion rows - and the size of the database is huge - Terabytes)

Obvious answer to getting the row count is:

select count(*) from ;

But a count(*) w.r.t a huge table under consideration is too costly a deal.

So what are the alternatives?

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