Saving a select count(*) value to an integer (SQL Server)
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Hi everyone,
I'm having some trouble with this statement, owing no doubt to my ignorance of what is returned from this select statement:
declare @myInt as INT
set @myInt = (select COUNT(*) from myTable as count)
if(@myInt <> 0)
begin
print 'there's something in the table'
end
There are records in myTable, but when I run the code above the print statement is never run. Further checks show that myInt is in fact zero after the assignment above. I'm sure I'm missing something, but I assumed that a select count would return a scalar that I could use above?
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