[ciapug] Adodb: RecordCount()
Barry Von Ahsen
ciapug@cialug.org
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:50:31 -0500
David Champion wrote:
> Is this on mysql or ms-sql? Some of ADODB's methods don't work with some
> databases. For instance, the Identity_Insert() doesn't work with
> Oracle. Others that are "spotty" are things like MoveFirst() - or
> anything that moves the cursor position anything more than forward one.
>
oracle does not support RecordCount(), but it does support
PO_RecordCount(table, where), which if the database doesn't support
PO_RecordCount, it runs "select count(*) from $table where $where", at
the expense of an extra database hit.
-barry