What is Oracle's equivalent to mySQL's "limit"? Sorry if considered off-topic! (I use DBD::Oracle and DBD::mysql)
Pekka Siiskonen > -----Original Message----- > From: Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30. marraskuuta 2001 12:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 1-10, 11-20 > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:34:11 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:08:32PM -0500, Charles Day wrote: > >> Might be slightly OT, sorry. I've been researching this > for some time now. > >> Exactly like search engines. Past ideas were to create a > temporary db or > >> use cursors. Anybody have ideas? > > > >http://search.cpan.org/doc/TIMB/DBI_Talk5_2001/sld059.htm > > You've got some pretty good ideas up there... My favourite is "Select > and cache only the row keys, fetch full rows as needed". > > But you might not need the cache, then. When combined with the first > idea, "re-execute query and discard unneeded", this can become: > > Re-execute full query only fetching the row id's. > Count and discard (this can be done in a perl array), > and then fetch the full rows only for those rows you want. > > -- > Bart. >
