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diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst index 4f93c794d..de4a337cb 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst @@ -150,6 +150,13 @@ is the variable that the query result object is assigned to:: echo $query->num_rows(); +.. note:: Oracle (OCI8 driver) doesn't have a way of returning the + total number of rows in a result set without actually fetching + all of them. The only way to achieve this is to get all of the + results first and do a ``count()`` on the resulting array, + therefore you can't use ``num_rows()`` to increase performance + when using the OCI8 driver. + $query->num_fields() ===================== |