How to test if a table is empty, using Hibernate

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Published on 2010-05-28T21:21:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 21:32 UTC
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Using Hibernate, what is the most efficient way to determine if a table is empty or non-empty? In other words, does the table have 0, or more than 0 rows?

I could execute the HQL query select count(*) from tablename and then check if result is 0 or non-0, but this isn't optimal as I would be asking the database for more detail than I really need.

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