Question

I want to count all the records of a table using Doctrine ORM and I want it done in the fastest way possible.

I don’t need the individual records of the table. I just need the total number of records in the table.

Is there a particular method that will give me the most ramming speed in terms of performance?

Answer 1

The fastest is likely to bypass Doctrine and use raw SQL, but you can do:

Doctrine::getTable('tablename')->count();

Also see:

• Doctrine Manual on Data Retrieval and Manipulation