Best way to test if a row exists in a MySQL table

You could also try EXISTS:

SELECT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE ...)

and per the documentation, you can SELECT anything.

Traditionally, an EXISTS subquery starts with SELECT *, but it could begin with SELECT 5 or SELECT column1 or anything at all. MySQL ignores the SELECT list in such a subquery, so it makes no difference.

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