SQL Server Select COUNT without using aggregate function or group by

Question

I'm in a very, very tight situation here. I have an SQL query running on SQL Server 2005:

SELECT col1,col2,col3 FROM myTable

Which of course gives:

col1 | col2 | col3
------------------
 1   |  a   | i
 2   |  b   | ii

etc

I need to, if possible, add a COUNT query so that it will return the number of records returned. I cannot use GROUP BY or an aggregate function (It's a very edge case on some very inflexible software).

Ideally, something like this:

SELECT col1,col2,col3,COUNT(NumberOfRows) as NumRows FROM myTable

col1 | col2 | col3| NumRows
---------------------------
 1   |  a   | i   | 2
 2   |  b   | ii  | 2

I realise that this is bad. And inefficient. And against all good practices. But I'm in a corner with software whose architecture was frozen in stone in 1991!

Answer 1

Uuh so it turns out my collegue came back with an answer 30 seconds after asking the question.

The correct syntax is:

SELECT col1,col2,col3,@@ROWCOUNT as NumRows FROM myTable