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

If you want to find count for specific predicated fetch, i believe this is the best way:

NSError *err;
NSUInteger count = [context countForFetchRequest:fetch error:&err];

if(count > 0) {
NSLog(@"EXIST"); 
} else {
NSLog(@"NOT exist");
}