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title: "Step 4b: Fetch the Row Count | Microsoft Docs"
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# Step 4b: Fetch the Row Count
The next step is to fetch the row count, as shown in the following illustration.  
  
 ![Shows fetching the row count](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/media/pr15.gif "pr15")  
  
 If the statement executed in Step 3 was an **UPDATE**, **DELETE**, or **INSERT** statement, the application retrieves the count of affected rows with **SQLRowCount**. For more information, see [Determining the Number of Affected Rows](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/determining-the-number-of-affected-rows.md).  
  
 The application now returns to step 3 to execute another statement in the same transaction or proceeds to step 5 to commit or roll back the transaction.