First I'd like to apologize for posting a persistence question on this board. I've tried other boards but no one's home. I am desperate :-( I would like to perform a SELECT COUNT(1) FROM a table "TableA" but can't seem to get the SQL statement to work with EntityManager. The following code always return a 0 even I know the table contains hundreds of records. int rowCnt= (Integer) em.createQuery("SELECT count(1) FROM TableA").getSingleResult(); Can anyone help? I am using JBoss 4.2.1 with Seam 1.2.1. Thanks. -tony View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4074624#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...