Total Count with WWW::Salesforce module

slloyd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using WWW::Salesforce and WWW::Salesforce::Simple to query our Salesforce account. I see a way to limit my search but I do not see a way to get the total record count without querying all the records. We have nearly 500,000 Leads so this takes a tremendous amount of time. Does anyone know a way to tell Salesforce to return the total record count without returning all the data?

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Re: Total Count with WWW::Salesforce module by bichonfrise74 (Vicar) on May 08, 2009 at 23:20 UTC
I have not used this module and I do not have a test account to try this... but it looks like you simply need to use the query( HASH ) method. I wonder if query( "select count(*) from table" ) would work?	[reply]
Re^2: Total Count with WWW::Salesforce module by slloyd (Hermit) on May 11, 2009 at 13:30 UTC
Good thought but it does not seem to like "select count". I don't think that SF supports count. s/te/ve/	[reply]