Getting a count of rows in a datatable that meet certain criteria

Question

I have a datatable, dtFoo, and would like to get a count of the rows that meet a certain criteria.

EDIT: This data is not stored in a database, so using SQL is not an op

Answer 1

Not sure if this is faster, but at least it's shorter :)

int rows = new DataView(dtFoo, "IsActive = 'Y'", "IsActive",
    DataViewRowState.CurrentRows).Table.Rows.Count;

Answer 2

object count =dtFoo.Compute("count(IsActive)", "IsActive='Y'");