SQLite3 and lastrowid
Alain Ketterlin
alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
Fri Nov 19 06:32:19 EST 2010
Alexander Gattin <xrgtn at yandex.ru> writes:
>> The proper way to get the number of rows is to
>> use the COUNT aggregate function, e.g., "SELECT
>> COUNT(*) FROM TABLE1", which will return a
>> single row with a single column containing the
>> number of rows in table1.
>
> It's better to select count(1) instead of
> count(*). The latter may skip rows consisting
> entirely of NULLs IIRC.
Wrong: count(anyname) ignores NULL, whereas count(*) does not.
-- Alain.
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