"Martijn Tonies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/06/2004 13:02:25:

> 
> > > Mind you -- 
> > >
> > > > If your table contains a timestamp field, it will update each time 
the
> > row
> > > > is altered.  Otherwise I don't think it's possible.
> > >
> > > That's on a per ROW basis, not TABLE basis.
> >
> > But if it is on every row, you can MAX() it to get the latest row 
update,
> > which is the latest table update.
> 
> 
> How fast would this be on a largish table?

Very fast, if the column were indexed. Slow, if not.

        Alec




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