FOUND_ROWS

Count rows found by the last SELECT statement. This function returns the total number of rows matching the query, disregarding any LIMIT clause.

Syntax

FOUND_ROWS()

Description

A SELECT statement may include a LIMIT clause to restrict the number of rows the server returns to the client. In some cases, it is desirable to know how many rows the statement would have returned without the LIMIT, but without running the statement again. To obtain this row count, include an SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS option in the SELECT statement, and then invoke FOUND_ROWS() afterwards.

You can also use FOUND_ROWS() to obtain the number of rows returned by a SELECT which does not contain a LIMIT clause. In this case you don't need to use the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS option. This can be useful for example in a stored procedure.

Also, this function works with some other statements which return a result set, including SHOW, DESC and HELP. For DELETE ... RETURNING you should use ROW_COUNT(). It also works as a prepared statement, or after executing a prepared statement.

Statements which don't return any results don't affect FOUND_ROWS() - the previous value will still be returned.

Warning: When used after a CALL statement, this function returns the number of rows selected by the last query in the procedure, not by the whole procedure.

Statements using the FOUND_ROWS() function are not safe for statement-based replication.

Examples

SHOW ENGINES\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
      Engine: CSV
     Support: YES
     Comment: Stores tables as CSV files
Transactions: NO
          XA: NO
  Savepoints: NO
*************************** 2. row ***************************
      Engine: MRG_MyISAM
     Support: YES
     Comment: Collection of identical MyISAM tables
Transactions: NO
          XA: NO
  Savepoints: NO

...

*************************** 8. row ***************************
      Engine: PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA
     Support: YES
     Comment: Performance Schema
Transactions: NO
          XA: NO
  Savepoints: NO
8 rows in set (0.000 sec)

SELECT FOUND_ROWS();
+--------------+
| FOUND_ROWS() |
+--------------+
|           8 |
+--------------+

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM tbl_name WHERE id > 100 LIMIT 10;
...
SELECT FOUND_ROWS();
+--------------+
| FOUND_ROWS() |
+--------------+
|           23 |
+--------------+

See Also

• ROW_COUNT()

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