Data paging using E-SQL
Data paging is a concept that allows you to retrieve a specified number of records and display them in the user interface. The data is displayed one page at a time. You can use data paging to split the data rendered to the user into multiple pages for faster page downloads, an increase to user interface flexibility, and minimal load on the database server. Paging can be used when the volume of data to be displayed is substantial and you need it to be divided into pages of data records to be displayed more efficiently.
The following statement will return a result set that contains the top 10 records of the Employee
table, ordered by employee names:
SELECT emp FROM PayrollEntities.Employee AS emp ORDER BY emp.EmployeeName LIMIT 10;
Suppose you need to display records 11 to 20 from the Employee
table. Here is how you can do this:
SELECT emp FROM PayrollEntities.Employee AS emp ORDER BY emp.EmployeeName SKIP 10 LIMIT 10;
How does it work? When you say SKIP 10
, it will skip...