Re: Can This be done

On 5/12/02 3:22 PM, "Uros Gruber"  wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible for example I have one db with 100.000
> entries. I select some data, let say about 1.000. Now i want
> this data show on page by pages.
> 
> I use limit and ofset for this. But how can i know how much
> is all the records. Because i want to print also how many
> hits were but i don't want get all the rows at once.
> 
> Is there any function for this or i have to make 2 queries.

In most implementations I've seen, which is mostly middleware such as PHP,
if you aren't going to get all the rows at once, you need two queries. The
"function" that you want, that tells you the number of rows matching
criteria X, is, after all, a SELECT statement ... :->

-- sgl


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