Re^4: prepare statement within DBI


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Re^4: prepare statement within DBI

by dragonchild (Archbishop)

on Aug 26, 2004 at 12:06 UTC ( [id://385974]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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From what I understood in my MySQL course a few months back, MyISAM tables actually keep the number of rows in the table stored somewhere. I'm not sure why it does this, but it does. So, select count(*) from table1; is actually special-cased in the MySQL code.

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