Re: Which of the SYSIBM tables/views show the row count for all PF

Eric, Nick, Buck,

Eric,

You wrote:

I could certainly be mistaken, but since that sort of metadata is stored

within the file object on OS400, why would SQL need to store row counts in a
database? I don't think you'll find it in the catalog views... <<

In all real RDBSs, the "metadata" for all tables, rows, columns, indexes,
etc., is contained in the system catalogs, NOT in each table object. This
so you and the optimizer, etc., only has to look in one place to find all
"metadata" for all tables, etc. And, it's not SQL that's storing this data
in the real RDBMS, its the database engine.

Nick and Buck, Already went down that route for each of the libraries of
which I'm interested; how very antiquated... at the library/schema level and
not the database level.

Thanks anyway, I was hoping DB2/400 had matured to a real DB2 but, alas,
no. I can only hope it soon will.

Thanks again,

Dave
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