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snowflake.snowpark.functions.count¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.count(e: ColumnOrName) → Column[source] (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/release-v1.3.0/src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py#L553-L579)¶

Returns either the number of non-NULL records for the specified columns, or the total number of records.

Example

>>> df = session.create_dataframe([[1], [None], [3], [4], [None]], schema=["a"])
>>> df.select(count(col("a")).alias("result")).show()
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|"RESULT"  |
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|3         |
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>>> df.select(count("*").alias("result")).show()
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|"RESULT"  |
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|5         |
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