Re: count(1) return 0?

Zak McGregor wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:55:15 -0500
> Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:
>
>>Not really sure I understand what you want, but try something like this:
>>
>>select case when count(*) > 0 then ''t'' else ''f'' end from ...
>
> Unfortunately that does not work. When the resultset contains no records
> whatsoever, I get no rows at all - so on case...else sort of expression within
> the select itself will work.
>
> What I am looking for is a way to select "0" if no rows are returned, or the
> total number of rows returned from the query otherwise.

I suspect that I still don't understand what you're trying to do, but ...

select case when count(*) > 0 then 1 else 0 end from ...

Was what I should have suggested.

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