Calculating Pagination Metadata Without Extra Roundtrips in SQL

When paginating results in SQL, we use standard SQL OFFSET .. FETCH or a vendor specific version of it, such as LIMIT .. OFFSET. For example: SELECT first_name, last_name FROM actor ORDER BY actor_id OFFSET 10 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY As always, we're using the Sakila database for this example. This is rather … Continue reading Calculating Pagination Metadata Without Extra Roundtrips in SQL

Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong

Pagination is one of those things that almost everyone gets wrong for two reasons: User experience Database performance Here's why. What's wrong with pagination? Most applications blindly produce pagination like this: This is how GMail implements pagination. With my current settings, it displays 100 E-Mails at a time and also shows how many E-Mails there … Continue reading Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong

jOOQ Tuesdays: Markus Winand is on a Modern SQL Mission

Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a variety of other related topics. We are excited to … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays: Markus Winand is on a Modern SQL Mission

10 SQL Articles Everyone Must Read

We've been blogging about Java and SQL for a while now, on the jOOQ blog. Over the years, while researching interesting blog topics, we've discovered a lot of SQL gems in the blogosphere that have inspired our work and our passion for SQL. Today, we're presenting to you a list of 10 articles that we … Continue reading 10 SQL Articles Everyone Must Read

jOOQ Newsletter: August 15, 2014 – jOOQ 3.5 Outlook

Subscribe to this newsletter here jOOQ 3.5 Outlook We're working hard on the next release. Already 90 issues for jOOQ 3.5 are closed and counting! Today, we're going to look at the highlights of what will be implemented in the next, exciting minor release, due for Q4 2014: Support for new databases Our customers have … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: August 15, 2014 – jOOQ 3.5 Outlook

Join the No OFFSET Movement!

Markus Winand from Use The Index, Luke! did it again. He started an exciting battle against one the biggest flaws in the SQL language: We've blogged about this before. OFFSET pagination is terribly slow, once you reach higher page numbers. Besides, chances are, that your database doesn't even implement it correctly, yet (and your emulation … Continue reading Join the No OFFSET Movement!