thx folks, I pretty much thought version 1 to be the best. I' wouldn't have known how to carry the result to other pages anyway. Jan > > > Hi, > I've got a page with lot's of visitors every day and I sure hope to > get more, so I'm already thinking of performance. This is what I've > got. > > Users select one or more things out of a couple drop down menus, > no big deal. Their selection is than shown, with a limitation of > 20 results on the page. > > Now comes my question, what is better speaking of performance: > When users go on to the next page, is it better to > provide the select statement again with a different integer for > the limit? > > Or is better to do a full select without a limitation on first page. > But than I don't know how to provide the result set for the > next, next, ... page? > > What would be your choice? I'm open to suggestions, maybe somebody has > a totally different idea. The limitation of 20 is a wish of my customer. > I think, most vistors won't stay on page one, but will click thru > some pages further. The max. number of results shown should be around > 1000 hits. > > Jan > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
