Jörn, >The autocomplete plugin version I've just released (see other thread) >sends the options.max value to the server as a "limit" parameter, you >could add that to your SQL to limit the number of results already on the >server.
I wouldn't recommend that though if you're using the caching--it will throw off internal caching mechanism. If the server would to only return a partial match and you're using caching, you potentially would never find your match. -Dan