>Hi,
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>>>Google does exactly what I'm advocating - gives you a count (and then obviously not by a query against the full base). You can't download the 8,790,000,000 hits in one go - just a maximum of 100 per page. And that's *still* not the actual pages - just the links.
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>>I'm sorry, but I don't understand. You did say you would REFUSE to query.
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>I said "Could you do a COUNT first and refuse to pull the actual data if the result size was too large?". Not the same thing at all.
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>Best,
>Viv
You two have been at this for 8 hours! If you were boxers you'd be leaning on each other, head-to-head :-)
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