Question

I know how to use SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS with Limit to return total number of rows and results for pagination.

But my question is…

What if (for performance purpose) I want to show if total rows exceeds 1,000 I just want to return 1,000 (even if there are more records)?

SELECT Count(id) FROM table WHERE 1

I Google’d a lot but couldn’t find this. I thought of this thinking this may improve Fulltext search speed for example.

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In many cases it can be faster, but you should test it:

SELECT count(*) FROM ( SELECT 1 FROM t LIMIT 1000 ) a