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Re: Poor performance when using a large Limit offset
Posted by: James Day
Date: January 24, 2005 12:59AM

That's called a covering index and it can be a big help. You might want to see if you can find a way to start at the right point initially instead of using a limit, though - assuming you expect the record count, offsets or frequency of the query to grow.

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