What is the meaning of "select 1 as count from tablename" in sql server?

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MalwareTrojan 4-Mar-13 7:45am

Downvote. . . It will display that only, I think you you try, rather blindly voting the solutions.

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Davidduraisamy · Answer 1 · 2013-03-04T01:38:00

This will just return 1 for no.of column which is available in table as output and column name as Count

Posted 4-Mar-13 1:38am

Updated 4-Mar-13 17:23pm

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Vyacheslav Voronenko · Answer 2 · 2013-03-04T01:32:00

Seems useless, unless you want to get a recordset that consists of '1's with number of records in recordset equal to number of rows in tablename.

Posted 4-Mar-13 1:32am

MalwareTrojan · Answer 3 · 2013-03-04T01:30:00

It will Display 1 as a Value and Column name as COUNT, as shown below.

COUNT
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1

Posted 4-Mar-13 1:30am