First of, as you said and as I stated in earlier post, yes for different apps you 
might need different paging, i.e. for a small app with hardly any users caching will 
do, but as I said in this case its an app with at least 17000 records and multiple 
concurant users (maybe 20 at the max), caching would not be a good option (in my eyes) 
- also in this situation the db server is located from the webserver (as it should).

Caching queries means the first time you take ALL records and cache them, in my books 
the user hardly goes past the first two pages, thus caching XXXX records each time 
would be a waste. If you take this issue into consideration then the proposed solution 
would be better in many cases.

OK, there is a bit of processing within the RDBMS, but nothing it can't handle.

It would not need to be a stored procedure, but thats all I work with, unless its a 
data retrieval for a dropdown.

"In addition, the "work" is still being done by the database server."
I can't think of any way that the database server would not have to do any work?

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Also, when I tested this query in SQL Query Analyzer (without the @ 
variables and just using constants) it barfed on the quote/CAST syntax for 
the TOP parameter (it is expecting an integer constant apparently).
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Whats the error?
Could be a booboo on my behalf, I had to work all weekend and did not have much time 
to spend on the samples, but I reckon the principle is clear to most.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2004 12:48 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Efficient Paging - follow up on an old post


> This is what cuts down on the data transferred back and forth upon 
moving
> form page to page...

I wouldn't need to be a stored procedure.  A CF query built the same way 
would do the same thing (the TOP happens at the SQL server - not at the 
CFMX end).

Having said that, an execution plan show the cost of this query will be in 
the ORDER BY clauses - 80% in fact.

TOP can actually end up being costly especially with ORDER BY clauses.  In 
many instances the database will still have to perform a full table scan 
to do the ORDER BY.

In addition, the "work" is still being done by the database server.  As 
you get towards the ends of the "page sets" the inner query is returning 
more and more rows of which you only really want 10 (which is another 
query that actually executes - the queries are nested three deep).  If the 
query being paged is used regularly then this may be more work for the 
database server than would make sense.

While I can see this will restrict network traffic I am not convinced that 
you haven't just spread the workload to a different machine (depending on 
the frequency of execution) and that you could still be better off with a 
cached query.

This probably highlights that each instance of paging may require it's own 
solutions.

Also, when I tested this query in SQL Query Analyzer (without the @ 
variables and just using constants) it barfed on the quote/CAST syntax for 
the TOP parameter (it is expecting an integer constant apparently).



Gary Menzel
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