Re: Getting Number of Rows in CTAS across DBLink

Dennis,

Thanks. Sorry for not being explicit about it. Since the table created is huge, I want to avoid the count(*) if I can get the number in some other way.

Arup

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> Arup
> select count(*) from table?
> What is your goal? Corruption detection?
>
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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>
> List,
>
> When I create a table as select * from another table across a dblink, how
do
> I find out how many rows were created in the table? Is there a statistic
> somewhere, documented or otherwise, that tells me how many rows were
> fetched?
>
> Currently I am using a rather convoluted approach - using the statistic,
> bytes received via SQL*Net to dblink, and dividing that by the average row
> size to get an approximate idea of the number of rows. However, this
> approximation is far from even reasonably accurate; and since the rowsize
> can change radically, it can be way off the mark. Any help or pointers
will
> be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Arup Nanda
>
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