Question

I have an MsSQL server and what I am doing is selecting rows from the table. Currently I have two rows so I was wondering how would I check if there are no other rows after second one without making another query?

For example

table users

id    name    pass

1     joe     123

2     bob     abc

How would I check if there is no row after 2 with just a query? I am willing to combining it with my current query, which just selects the data.

Answer 1

You can return the number of rows in your query as another column:

SELECT id, name, pass, count(*) over () as rows
FROM users

Keep in mind that this is telling you the number of rows returned by the query, not the number of rows in the table. However, if you specify a “TOP n” in your select, the rows column will give you the number of rows that would have been returned if you didn’t have “Top n”