we're using DevCenter 1.2.0 and from the DataStax web site the below does not seem to be adressed by 1.2.1.

DevCenter 1.2.0 forces an implicit limit on 'select...' queries, which allows values up to 1000, and cannot be empty. The limit value from the limit box can be overridden by an explicit LIMIT clause. 

This works fine when running 'standard' queries, but makes it impossible to get a valid result for select count(*) queries. This is because in Cassandra the LIMIT clause applies to the source rather than the result (unlike SQL btw). So if you do 'select count(*) from my\_table' in DevCenter, you will get a result of 100 if the current limit is 100, 200 if the current limit is 200 and so on. Pretty useless I'm afraid.

If you override the limit by doing 'select count(\*) from my\_table limit 1000000000000' then you get a timeout.

Would it make sense to remove the implicit limit for 'select count' queries in DevCenter?