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  3. May 2002

RE: SQL Result Count Question..

Tim wondered:

>My question is this...  Do I have to loop
>through all the lines in the result set
>using fetch next, or is the a value I can
>read after the SQL runs that contains the
>number of rows?

Predefined value SQLER3 (for RPG) provides the number of rows.

It's in the manual.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/infocenter.html
V5R1
 Programming
  SQL
   SQL Reference (HTML)
    Appendix B (SQLCA)
     Field descriptions
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/db2/rbafzmstf
ielddescsqlca.htm#HDRFIELDDESCSQLCA

A search for SQLER3 turned up 4 hits, including the above.

  --buck

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