Cocoa Core Data efficient way to count entities

Question

I read much about Core Data.. but what is an efficient way to make a count over an Entity-Type (like SQL can do with SELECT count(1) ...). Now I just solved this task with s

Answer 1

In Swift 3

  static func getProductCount() -> Int {
    let moc = (UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as! AppDelegate).managedObjectContext
    let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest(entityName: "Product")
    let count = try! moc.count(for: fetchRequest)
    return count
}