Getting total Records in database - rowcount

Question

public ResultSet getRecordsCount(){
ResultSet result = null;
try {
result = statement.executeQuery("Select count(word) from records");
} catch (SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return result;
}
I'm trying to get total number of rows in my database but it is returning garbage value.
I'm Using SQL Server 2012 and there is no exception in the code.
Is my code correct?

Answer 1

I would use this code:
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
public static void main(String[] args) {
int numRows = 0;
try {
Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");
String userName = "user"; //in case you need
String password = "password"; // in case you need
String url = "jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433"+";databaseName=THE_NAME_OF_MY_DB";
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, userName, password);
// if you don't need user and password then
// Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url);
String SQL = "SELECT * FROM table_name";
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL);
ResultSetMetaData rsMetaData = rs.getMetaData();
// This while loop is to loop over each row and the for loop
// is to loop over each field
while (rs.next()) {
for(int i=1; i <= rs.getColumnCount(); i++){
numRows ++;
System.out.println(rs.getString(i));
//This prints field by field
}
}
System.out.println(Total column number"+rs.getColumnCount());
System.out.println(Total row number"+Integer.toString(numRows));
rs.close();
stmt.close();
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}