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Subj:   Re: Record count stored in Data Dictionary
 
From:   Dieter Noeth

SRINI GORRELLA wrote:

  Stats just give the unique values not the row counts ... This is true if and only if you have a UPI on table that too with NOT NULL COLUMNs  


  If you have a table with NUPI , stats on NUPI will give you just the unique values but not the row counts  


True if you look at "help stats" output, but the actual row count is stored within the binary stats. And "help index" always returns the approixmate number of _rows_ in a table for the PI column[s].


  I don't understand what's the need to store row counts in dictionary  


Just to get quick info without a "select count(*)"?

MS SQL Server has that kind of info in sysindexes: approximate counts for number of rows and IIRC updated rows.

In Teradata a "select count(*) from table;" could be really fast, if it would sum up the number of rows per datablock, which is stored within the cylinder index. But it's doing a stupid Full Table Scan instead reading every datablock :-(


Dieter



     
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