What does it mean by select 1 from table?

Question

I have seen many queries with something as follows.

Select 1  
From table

What does this 1 mean, how will it be executed and,

Answer 1

This is just used for convenience with IF EXISTS(). Otherwise you can go with

select * from [table_name]

Image In the case of 'IF EXISTS', we just need know that any row with specified condition exists or not doesn't matter what is content of row.

select 1 from Users

above example code, returns no. of rows equals to no. of users with 1 in single column