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count(*) for sample blcok

From: prateek <hkprateek_at_gmail.com>
Date: 8 Dec 2006 08:34:00 -0800
Message-ID: <1165595640.079633.247750@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> 





Hi,


I am curious to know why this query:



"select count(*) from far_employee sample block (1);"



returns zero at times and some other times returns a non zero number.
Table: far_employee is populated with more than 400K records.



Thanks,


Prateek
Received on Fri Dec 08 2006 - 10:34:00 CST












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