title: How can you tell if a Influx Database contains data?
body: <p>I'm currently trying to count the number of rows in an InfluxDB, but the following fails.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT count(*) FROM "TempData_Quarantine_1519835017000_1519835137000"..:MEASUREMENT";
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  <p>with the message </p>
  
  <pre><code>InfluxData API responded with status code=BadRequest, response={"error":"error parsing query: found :, expected ; at line 1, char 73"}
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  <p>To my understanding this query should be checking all measurements and counting them?</p>
  
  <p>(I inherited this code from someone else, so apologies for not understanding it better)</p>