使用limit查询的同时取得总的记录数：SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS和FOUND_ROWS()

通常我们都用如下的sql来进行列表

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE name LIKE ‘a%’;

SELECT name, email FROM users WHERE name LIKE ‘a%’ LIMIT 10;

但是从Mysql4.0.0开始，我们可以选择使用另外一个方式：

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS name,
email FROM users WHERE name LIKE ‘a%’ LIMIT 10;

SELECT FOUND_ROWS();

其中SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS 告诉Mysql将sql所处理的行数记录下来，FOUND_ROWS() 则取到了这个纪录。
虽然也是两个语句，但是只执行了一次主查询，所以效率比原来要高很多。
详细信息见这里 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-functions.html#function_found-rows
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FOUND_ROWS()

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 a

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

option
in the

SELECT

statement,
and then invoke

FOUND_ROWS()

afterward:
SELECT语句中经常可能用LIMIT限制返回行数。有时候可能想要知道如果没有LIMIT会返回多少行，但又不想再执行一次相同语句。那么，在SELECT查询中包含

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS选项，然后执行

FOUND_ROWS()就可以了：

mysql> [code]SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM tbl_name

->

WHERE id > 100 LIMIT 10;

mysql>

SELECT FOUND_ROWS();

[/code]

The second

SELECT

returns
a number indicating how many rows the first

SELECT

would
have returned had it been written without the

LIMIT

clause.
第二个SELECT将返回第一条SELECT如果没有LIMIT时返回的行数。
In the absence of the

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

option
in the most recent

SELECT

statement,

FOUND_ROWS()

returns
the number of rows in the result set returned by that statement.
如果在前一条语句中没有使用

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS选项，

FOUND_ROWS()将返回前一条语句实际返回的行数。

The row count available through

FOUND_ROWS()

is
transient and not intended to be available past the statement following the

SELECT
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

statement. If you need to refer to the value later, save it:

FOUND_ROWS()得到的数字是临时的，执行下一条语句就会失效。如果想要这个数字，就要将它保存下来：

mysql> [code]SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM ... ;

mysql>

SET @rows = FOUND_ROWS();

[/code]

If you are using

SELECT
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

, MySQL must calculate how many rows are in the full result set. However, this is faster than running the query again without

LIMIT

,
because the result set need not be sent to the client.
如果使用

SELECT
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

，MySQL必须计算所有结果集的行数。尽管这样，总比再执行一次不使用LIMIT的查询要快多了吧，因为那样结果集要返回客户端滴。（阿冬注：应该不单是没有将结果集返回的原因，还有原因可能是比如LIKE之类比较费劲的SQL不需要再去劳累一次。）（突然想起来MYSQL5.1是有中文文档的，在12.9.3节。）

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

and

FOUND_ROWS()

can
be useful in situations when you want to restrict the number of rows that a query returns, but also determine the number of rows in the full result set without running the query again. An example is a Web script that presents a paged display containing links
to the pages that show other sections of a search result. Using

FOUND_ROWS()

allows
you to determine how many other pages are needed for the rest of the result.
The use of

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

and

FOUND_ROWS()

is
more complex for

UNION

statements
than for simple

SELECT

statements,
because

LIMIT

may
occur at multiple places in a

UNION

.
It may be applied to individual

SELECT

statements
in the

UNION

,
or global to the

UNION

result
as a whole.
The intent of

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

for

UNION

is
that it should return the row count that would be returned without a global

LIMIT

.
The conditions for use of

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

with

UNION

are:

The

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

keyword
must appear in the first

SELECT

of
the

UNION

.

The value of

FOUND_ROWS()

is
exact only if

UNION
ALL

is used. If

UNION

without

ALL

is
used, duplicate removal occurs and the value of

FOUND_ROWS()

is
only approximate.

If no

LIMIT

is
present in the

UNION

,

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

is
ignored and returns the number of rows in the temporary table that is created to process the

UNION

.