Did your instructor say this with a straight face? There's no such voodoo as a rowcount in a segment header. The two ways you can do it are a FTS or fast full scan of a not null index. There are other more exotic ways (materialized view) but nothing involving the segment header, that I know of. In this case providing a counter-example is actually easier, have the instructor provide an execution plan where that shows something other than a FTS or index FFS. S- On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, rjamya wrote: > I am sitting in a class and instructor told us that count(*) reads > rowcount from segment header in some (or most?) cases rather than > doign the good ol' FTS. He can't remember exact details, so this email > .... > > is it true? Which version was this introduced? Someone has a > reproducible test case? > > Thanks in advance > Raj > ------------------------------ > --- > To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe > To read recent messages - //freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/09-2004 > --- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To read recent messages - //freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/09-2004