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Get the total number of rows present in MySQL table with/without using count function. In employee table we have 7 records.

SELECT * FROM `employee`;

    id  name    salary  
------  ------  --------
     1  Ramesh      5000
     2  Ashish      4000
     3  Rahul       6000
     4  Vishal      7000
     5  Harsh       3000
     6  Kamal       1000
     7  Kamal        500

Get the total number of records with count function

 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employee;

Result ::

COUNT(*)  
----------
         7

Get the total number of records without count function

We can get the database or table information from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA

SELECT TABLE_ROWS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'employee';

Result ::

TABLE_ROWS  
------------
           7

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