How to get row count using ResultSet in Java?

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple method that receives a ResultSet as a parameter and returns an int that contains the row count of the ResultSet. Is this a valid way of doing

Answer 1

Most drivers support forward only resultset - so method like last, beforeFirst etc are not supported.

The first approach is suitable if you are also getting the data in the same loop - otherwise the resultSet has already been iterated and can not be used again.

In most cases the requirement is to get the number of rows a query would return without fetching the rows. Iterating through the result set to find the row count is almost same as processing the data. It is better to do another count(*) query instead.