How to get the row count from an azure database?

Question

Am working on a windows store javascript application. The application uses data from azure mobile services. Consider the below code:

Answer 1

You need to execute read() on the table query and then get the length of the results.

var items, numItems;
itemTable.read().then(function(results) { items = results; numItems = items.length; });

If you are only showing a record count and not the entire results - you should just select the ID column to reduce the amount of data transmitted. I don't see a count() method available yet in the JS Query API to fill this need.

var itemTable = mobileService.getTable('item').select('itemID');