>Hi,
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>Could you do a COUNT first and refuse to pull the actual data if the result size was too large ?
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>Regards,
>Viv
Viv,
This is what Naomi suggested too. But, without testing it, I thought that COUNT() + SQL SELECT could be slower than SQL SELECT with TOP nnn. I need to experiment.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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