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Reasonably efficient pagination without OFFSET (SQLite version)
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-- Reasonably efficient pagination without OFFSET | |
-- SQLite version (Adapted from MS SQL syntax) | |
-- Source: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showpost.php?p=10376515&postcount=6 | |
SELECT foo, bar, baz, quux FROM table | |
WHERE oid NOT IN ( SELECT oid FROM table | |
ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT 50 ) | |
ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT 10 |
Yeah. It's basically a workaround for some databases' query planners not being very smart about OFFSET
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Gotta admit...this is way cool 😎
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Oh I get it, it's semantically the same thing as OFFSET without using OFFSET. I was looking for something like this, which is what I ended up using: