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   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:   
   >      Is there any way to get the SET ROWCOUNT value?   
      
   I can't really think of a good way. You could to "SELECT 1 INTO #temp FROM   
   bigtable" and then check @@rowcount, but it's not good for performance when   
   SET ROWCOUNT is 0.   
      
   In any case, I recommend against any use of SET ROWCOUNT. This is a very   
   old command, which predates TOP and cursors. I see little reason to use it   
   today, and if it was up to me, it would be taken out of the product.   
      
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Links for SQL Server Books Online:   
   SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx   
   SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx   
      
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