From: Daevid Vincent Date: April 18 2003 9:23pm Subject: RE: How do I optimize SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE queries? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/137660 Message-Id: <005f01c305f0$d5601680$a50aa8c0@Locutus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not sure if it helps, but I was always under the impresssion to use COUNT(1) instead of COUNT(*)