Andrew,
To add to what Adam said, you can even do:
select
*, (select count(*) from table) as totalRecords
from
table
To grab the total number of records as a column.
NOTE: You want to try to avoid using "*" in your select statements--I'm
using it for brevity.
-Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:46 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: DB Pagination Question
>
>Andrew,
>
>Don't use RecordCount on a query that returns the actual rows. Instead,
>perform a query that just returns the Count(*) of the rows that would
>satisfy your WHERE clause. It's much more performant and requires a lot
>less of your server resources.
>Respectfully,
>
>Adam Phillip Churvis
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Grosset
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: DB Pagination Question
>
>
> Dan, thanks for posting. Presumably you need to do another query
>initially to determine how many pages potentially to display dependent on
>the recordcount? (ie if there were 1000 records (recordcount?) and you
>elected to display 10 records/page that would be 100 pages).
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