Show Number of Rows Affected by an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE Jim KnicelyApril 19, 2024 When you run a DML statement like an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE, some number of rows are affected. Databases have various ways to let you display that number. In MS SQL Server and Sybase, @@ROWCOUNT returns the number of rows affected by the last statement. Oracle uses SQL%ROWCOUNT and MySQL uses the function mysql_affected_rows(). To get the same result in Postgres, and therfore YugabyteDB, we use the GET DIAGNOSTICS command. Example: yugabyte=# DO $$ yugabyte$# DECLARE yugabyte$# total_rows INT; yugabyte$# BEGIN yugabyte$# CREATE TABLE t (c1 INT, c2 TEXT); yugabyte$# INSERT INTO t VALUES (1, 'A'), (2, 'B'), (3, 'C'); yugabyte$# GET DIAGNOSTICS total_rows := ROW_COUNT; yugabyte$# RAISE NOTICE 'Rows inserted : total_rows: %', total_rows; yugabyte$# UPDATE t SET c2 = 'Z' WHERE c1 IN (1, 3); yugabyte$# GET DIAGNOSTICS total_rows := ROW_COUNT; yugabyte$# RAISE NOTICE 'Rows updated : total_rows: %', total_rows; yugabyte$# END $$; NOTICE: Rows inserted : total_rows: 3 NOTICE: Rows updated : total_rows: 2 DO Have Fun!