COUNT

This function returns the number of items found in a group.

Syntax

COUNT ( { [ [ DISTINCT ] expression ] | * } )  

Arguments

expression
An expression of any type.

DISTINCT
Specifies that COUNT returns the number of unique nonnull values.

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Specifies that COUNT should count all rows to determine the total blockchain row count to return. COUNT() returns the number of rows in a specified table, and it preserves duplicate rows. It counts each row separately. This includes rows that contain null values.

Return Type

Returns a UINT64.

Examples

This example returns the total number of companies as well as the number of different sectors in the companies blockchain.

SELECT COUNT(*), COUNT(DISTINCT sector) FROM companies

Response:

COUNT(*) [UINT64]   COUNT( DISTINCT SECTOR) [UINT64]    
398 11