[thelist] ASP count

I thought it would be nice to let people know how many results their query
has returned on my site and I have achieved this using the following SQL
statement...

set NumQuery = conn.execute ("select count(Author) as thecount from Emails
where Author like '%" & strSearchWord &  "%'")

which works fine. My question is this: using this method I am using 2 SQL
statements, one to collect the results from the query and one to collect the
number of results.

set NumQuery = conn.execute ("select count(Author) as thecount from Emails
where Author like '%" & strSearchWord &  "%'")

set RSResult = conn.execute ("select PostDate, Subject, Author, PostText
from Emails where Author like '%" & strSearchWord &  "%' order by PostDate
asc;")

Is this a reasonable way of achieving this (it works after all) but it is
making 2 requests to the db which seems like a waste of resources. Is it
possible to do this in one SQL statement and, if so, will it make any kind
of significant difference?

Thanks

Kevin Stevens
kjs at ratking.co.uk