How to find out that the database table is empty

Hello all,
How to find out in ABAP in the best performant way, that the database table is empty. The table could have several milions of records or be empty. SELECT count( * ) looks to me as not the best way.
Kind regards
Radim Benek
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Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Aug 11, 2011 5:06 PM

Hi,
One approach is:
check lt_mytable is initial.
This will be true if there are no lines.
Another:
describe table lt_mytable lines lv_count
if lv_count = 0.
"Empty
Thanks.
Anitha a

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