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>>>What is your back end? You can do select count(*) first, then the actual select.
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>>Your suggestion of "count(*) first" is by far faster than select with TOP nnn. I think this should be the solution to the thread but they only allow one. Thank you very much.
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>Do you want MY message to be marked as a solution then <g>? I can do that for you <g>
Sure. Anything to make me happy <g>.
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