Posted by wackyphill on 09/28/68 11:35

If you were doing paging of results on a web page and were interested
in grabbing say records 10-20 of a result set. But also wanted to know
the total # of records in the result set (so you could know the total #
of pages in the set).

Would it be better to query the DB table 2X. Once for Count(*). And
again for the records for the current page?

Or better to create a temp table, select the records into it, and then
get count(*) and the page results from the temp table?

I saw an example in a book that made a temp table to do this and to me
it seemed like it would be slower. I don't get the reason for a temp
table. Anyone have any ideas?

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