>Hi,
> Why SELECT * faster than COUNT(*) in network? I have a simple test as below:
>
>FOR i =1 to 500
> set rs = db.openrecordset('select * from mytabledbopensnapshot )
> rs.close
>NEXT i
>
>it use 6 secs to finish.
>
>However, if i use count(*)
>
>FOR i =1 to 500
> set rs = db.openrecordset('select count(*) from mytable',dbopensnapshot)
> rs.close
>NEXT i
>
>it take 57 secs. why?
>
>Thank you

On which database engine?