What is the datatype returned by count(*)
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Answer / harsh
SELECT COUNT(*) as "Number of employees"
FROM employees
WHERE salary > 55000;
It would return the following result set:
Number of employees
5
HENCE IT RETURNS 'INT' TYPE.
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Answer / sanjeev kumar
It will return Int or Bigint depend on the size of the row.
(But both are same)
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Answer / thirumal
count(*) returns the total number of not null values in
given column
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Answer / lakshmi narayanan r
It will return INT. Proof is here...
SELECT COUNT(*) AS Total INTO tmpArchiveStoreMaster1 FROM
ArchiveStoreMaster asm
GO
sp_help tmpArchiveStoreMaster1
Name
Owner
Type
Created_datetime
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tmpArchiveStoreMaster1
dbo
user table 2010-07-06
15:43:05.310
Column_name
Type
Computed Length
Prec Scale Nullable
TrimTrailingBlanks FixedLenNullInSource
Collation
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----------------------------------- ----------- ----- -----
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Total
int
no 4
10 0 yes (n/a)
(n/a)
NULL
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Answer / haribabu
it returns how meny columns in the data table (or)
how meny records in the table
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Answer / server.getlasterror().message
Server.GetLastError().Message
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