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I have a table and want to check if there exists any record which satisfies some simple condition.
I’d like to know which will work faster:
if (select count(*) from ... where ...) > 0
or
if exists (select top (1) from ... where ...) .
exists returns result as soon as it finds record with matching where-clause while count needs to scan whole table to determine count. So exists is faster