Oracle’s OFFSET .. FETCH Can be Slower than Classic ROWNUM Filtering

One of Oracle 12c's coolest features was the introduction of the SQL standard OFFSET .. FETCH clause, as we can now write things like: SELECT * FROM film ORDER BY film_id FETCH FIRST 1 ROW ONLY This is querying the Sakila database. Most other databases had this clause (or a non-standard version of it) for … Continue reading Oracle’s OFFSET .. FETCH Can be Slower than Classic ROWNUM Filtering