Number of rows in Oracle SQL Select?

Question

I need to know how many records were returned in a select in oracle. Currently, I do two queries:

SELECT COUNT(ITEM_ID) FROM MY_ITEMS;

SELECT * FROM MY_ITEMS;
         


        

Answer 1

If you're working in PL/SQL, you can use the SQL%ROWCOUNT pseudo-variable to get the number of rows affected by the last SQL statement. Might save you some effort.