would count _rowid_ from mytable be quicker Paul www.sandersonforensics.com skype: r3scue193 twitter: @sandersonforens Tel +44 (0)1326 572786 http://sandersonforensics.com/forum/content.php?195-SQLite-Forensic-Toolkit -Forensic Toolkit for SQLite http://sandersonforensics.com/forum/content.php?168-Reconnoitre - VSC processing made easy
On 11 December 2014 at 15:19, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > In my table which had about 300 million (sic.) rows I did this > > SELECT count(*) FROM myTable; > > to count the number of rows. After half an hour it was still processing and > I had to kill it. > > I know that the internal structure of a table means that this number isn't > simple to produce. But is there really no faster way ? This table is going > to have about six times that amount soon. I really can't count the rows in > less than a few hours ? > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
