Hello André, Wednesday, July 6, 2005, 3:25:37 PM, you wrote: AM> Depending on the sittuation, IMHO, COUNT(*) wouldn't be the way to AM> go. If you need the user's id or somesuch, you have to run an AM> additional query to get the info. But they're returning absolutely nothing in this case - which (providing username was indexed) would make count() a far quicker and less expensive query than selecting and bring back data and then doing absolutely nothing with it (somewhat pointless imho) Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
