Database pagination
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Hi all, I'm actually designing an internet application, and I'd like to know how to paginate the information retrieved from the database. The problem is that I access a huge database (SQLServer 2000) and I don't want tho get all the records everytime I execute a query, I'd like to paginate the records and get them in different queries. I've thought of two methods to do that and I'd like to know which one is better, so if anybody knows it (or knows another way to solve it) please help me! 1. Use SQL queries of the type SELECT TOP x FROM aTable WHERE aTable.Id > @LastIdReceived The problem I find in this method, is that I'm accessing a huge table (about 900.000 records) and is a complicated query (with Joins to a lot of other tables) so I think that if I do it this way, each time I have to execute the full query (and there's also the fact that with this way I can't know before the total amount of records affected by the query, I could do a COUNT first, but this would be another query) 2. Create a temporary table of indexes with the query I need and then, retrieve the information I need by joining it with the real table (with the amount of records I need). The problem I see this way is that if there are a lot of users asking for queries at the same time, creating so many temporary tables might be inefficient. So, If somebody has ever faced this problem I'd like to know which way is better or if there's another way I've not thought about. Thanks.