On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, David Giragosian <dgiragosian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doesn't the 1 in "Select count(1) from table" refer to the first > column in the table, like order by 1 asc? No, it evaluates to Boolean TRUE. It's the same as the one (1) here: SELECT * FROM table WHERE 1; -- </Daniel P. Brown> Forensic Services, Senior Unix Engineer 1+ (570-) 362-0283 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php