Introduction In this article, we are going to see what the SQL Seek Method or Keyset Pagination is and why you should consider it when navigating over large results sets. The goal of pagination is to avoid fetching large volumes of data since the UI has a limited viewport that could be used to display data. OFFSET Pagination Before discussing Keyset Pagination, let’s see how the default OFFSET pagination works in SQL. Although relational database systems have long been providing specific ways of restricting a query result set, since SQL:2008, there is... Read More
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