Re: [GENERAL] LIMITS in SELECTs

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Fabrice Scemama wrote:

// Is there a way to select only a range of rows from a table, using a command
// like:
//
// SELECT * FROM table WHERE where_statement LIMIT 50,100;

That doesn't make sense in a relational database by itself since
it's not guaranteed to return any particular dataset in any particular
order. What you want is a cursor.

// I've tried, and then read the doc, but found no information so far.
//
// Thanks in advance.
//
//
//
// Fabrice Scemama
//
//

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