On Dec 28, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > I can see that's a problem. In my case, row keys represent switches in > production so I don't expect more than a few hundred. An application > can't find out how many switches are known without enumerating the > keys; how would you suggest I attack the problem?
If you only have a few hundred why not do a single key range query with a limit of 5000? --Joe