What is the datatype returned by count(*)

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / krishna

int data type

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

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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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / sanjeev kumar

It will return Int or Bigint depend on the size of the row.
(But both are same)

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / sujatha_k

number data type is return.

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / thirumal

count(*) returns the total number of not null values in
given column

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / amar_chhatwani

ir returned Int datadtpe

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------- -----------------------
tmpArchiveStoreMaster1

dbo

user table 2010-07-06
15:43:05.310



Column_name

Type

Computed Length
Prec Scale Nullable
TrimTrailingBlanks FixedLenNullInSource
Collation
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------- ----------- ----- -----
-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total

int

no 4
10 0 yes (n/a)
(n/a)
NULL

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / vikneswaran

number

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / haribabu

it returns how meny columns in the data table (or)
how meny records in the table

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What is the datatype returned by count(*)..

Answer / server.getlasterror().message

Server.GetLastError().Message

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