Re^4: prepare statement within DBI

From what I understood in my MySQL course a few months back, MyISAM tables actually keep the number of rows in the table stored somewhere. I'm not sure why it does this, but it does. So, select count(*) from table1; is actually special-cased in the MySQL code.

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