RE: [PHP] paging methodology
| From: | Chris W. Parker | Date: | Wed, 05 May 2004 18:06:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] paging methodology | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Chris <mailto:listschris@leftbrained.org>
on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:56 AM said:
> If you're using MySQL 4+ you could use the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS flag
> in the select statement.
>
> It causes the query to count the number of rows it *would have*
> returned if there had been no limit clause.
do you know if that's any faster than doing a "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM
table WHERE ..." ?
chris.