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The fastest way to calculate how many rows are in a table is to use the COUNT() function.

COUNT() is a function that takes the name of a column as an argument and counts the number of non-empty values in that column.

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM table_name;

Here, we want to count every row, so we pass * as an argument inside the parenthesis.

Let’s count how many apps are in the table.

In the code editor, run:

SELECT COUNT(*) 
FROM fake_apps;

Add a WHERE clause in the previous query to count how many free apps are in the table.

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