Question

I have two queries, as following:

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS Id, Name FROM my_table WHERE Name LIKE '%prashant%' LIMIT 0, 10;
SELECT FOUND_ROWS();

I want to execute both these queries in a single attempt.

$result = mysql_query($query);

But then tell me how I will handle each tables set separately. Actually in ASP.NET we uses dataset which handles two queries as

ds.Tables[0];
ds.Tables[1]; .. etc

How can I do the same using PHP/MYSQL?

Answer 1

Update: Apparently possible by passing a flag to mysql_connect(). See Executing multiple SQL queries in one statement with PHP Nevertheless, any current reader should avoid using the mysql_-class of functions and prefer PDO.

You can’t do that using the regular mysql-api in PHP. Just execute two queries. The second one will be so fast that it won’t matter. This is a typical example of micro optimization. Don’t worry about it.

For the record, it can be done using mysqli and the mysqli_multi_query-function.