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Old 12-24-2008, 03:51 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by geo353 View Post
i think they would both use about the same seeing as whichever you use they both just count the nunber of rows.
But the wildcard key gives SQL more to do, SELECT * FROM table is almost always slower than SELECT id,username,othercolumn1,ect FROM table
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