How to find the no of records in a recordset

Hi Everybody,

I have a record set with me. How do I find the no of rows present in that recordset. I tried using GetRecordCount()

function, but this function always returns 1. But on the backend I have multiple records. How to resolve this. Kindly help me.

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Bala.

Hi,
Use "SELECT COUNT (*) From TABLE_NAME" to get count of records:

rst.Open(CRecordset::snapshot,"SELECT COUNT (*) From TABLE_NAME",CRecordset::none);
int nField=0;
long nCount=0;
if(!rst.IsEOF())
{
CString str;
rst.GetFieldValue(nField,str);
nCount=atol(str);
}

rst.Close();
//after that open with required SQL
rst.Open(CRecordset::snapshot,"SELECT Fileld1, Fileld2 From TABLE_NAME",CRecordset::none);




Hope this helps,
Oleg.

Thank u Oleg.. U code works fine.. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Bala

In order to use GetRecordCount, you have to necessarily navigate through all records first (I used it working with DAO).

int count;
if(!rst.IsEOF())
{
rst.MoveNext();
}
count = GetRecordCount();
rst.Close();



If you omit the 'if' clause totally, you will get count = 1, because it knows only about the first record at that time (assuming records do exits).

-Shahzad

This seems a little easier to me and it is how the docs say...

// Set the record count.
CString strCount; // Could use a char*.
while(!m_pSet->IsEOF())
{
m_pSet->MoveNext();
}
ltoa(m_pSet->GetRecordCount(), strCount.GetBuffer(50), 10);
strCount.ReleaseBuffer();
m_editRecordCount.SetWindowText(strCount);

To find out the No. of records in a recordset, you should first use MoveLast or FindLast method of the recordset and then invoke the GetRecordCount Method. No need to traverse all the records in a loop. It is not required. Just open the recordset, call the MoveLast method and then use GetRecordCount to get the total no. of records present in the set.

but MoveLast is slow if there r alot of records ..
and count * can not be applied on a Query ... can u help me in that ?
thanx in advance ..