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Originally posted by julian
I thought that Oracle has made the change in 8i so that if you do not touch the real column, i.e., if you go for just pseudo-columns, then block is not read.
Not "that's what I've heard", but "that's what I think", isn't it? But it realy doesn't matter if you "think" or if you "have heard", my point was very clear: If you only realy give it a second thought it is more than self-evident that number of records can only be gotten from database blocks themself! Oracle can make no trics there... And no need for any "reliable URLs" to prove that ;).