I can imagine myself writing a nice little API that sets the offset limit, and then have a "pluggable" implementation for each of the drivers. But of course, that's what JDBC is supposed to do for me :)
David On 5/14/07, Francois Orsini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cool, would love to know how and what kind of hint is passed to the database engine - well, as far as Derby is concerned, setMaxRows() does not affect the DB engine, unless I'm mistaken - Now as far as using SQL LIMIT WITH OFFSET, it is up to the database engine to try and restrict the number of qualified rows returned to the caller....assuming the syntax is known to the DB ;-) On 5/14/07, Lance J. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most drivers try and let the server side handle this so what gets passed across the wire is the rows that meet the specified limit. This is what we did in jConnect for example. > > When this limit actually occurs could depend on how the backend applies it and the type of query (for example if you have a sort specified)... > > > > > Francois Orsini wrote: > I thought it would not as it is bound to the resultset (client-side) versus actual processing on the database engine side. I mean, if I only want the first 10 rows that qualifies some query, I don't want to have 1 million rows returned from the database engine ( e.g. server) as part of my resultset - LIMIT is something that database users like due to the fact that rows qualification and footprint is impacted from the database engine layer and level, not on the client side (I mean if I only want 10 rows, there shouldn't be more than that in the actual resultset. > > > On 5/14/07, Lance J. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > yes, most databases have a way to do that, my point was that the syntax below is not portable... so the driver via setmaxrows() should address that. > > > > > > Francois Orsini wrote: > > Right but most if not all RDBMS support a form of LIMIT. It may be non standard but support is there. > > > > > > On 5/14/07, Lance J. Andersen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, there are not a lot of DBs that support that syntax... :-( > > > > > > David Van Couvering wrote: > > > > Thanks for the tip, Bernt, but I must humbly say "yuck!" to the syntax. > > > > > > > > OK, getting over that, it's pretty worthless to me given that Derby > > > > doesn't use it and Derby is the primary DB used by NetBeans. But > > > > let's say it was implemented -- would it work with a result set that > > > > is a join across multiple tables? I can't tell from the convoluted > > > > syntax... > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > On 5/14/07, Bernt M. Johnsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> >>>>>>>>>>>> David Van Couvering wrote (2007-05-14 09:13:28): > > > >> > OK, so do I have it right that the right way to "hint" to the driver > > > >> > to not cache all one million rows when I only need ten rows is to use > > > >> > setMaxRows()? > > > >> > > > >> No. setFetchSize() is an optimization hint, setMaxRows() is a limit on > > > >> the ResultSet size. A driver may or may not communicate this to the > > > >> server, but the resultSet will never hold more than maxRows rows. > > > >> > > > >> > Is there a SQL standard way to "hint" to the server not to *process* > > > >> > all one million rows (e.g. in the order by case)? > > > >> > > > >> There's a standard SQL way to ask for an exact number of rows in the > > > >> query, like this > > > >> > > > >> SELECT * FROM ( > > > >> SELECT > > > >> ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY key ASC) AS rownumber, > > > >> columns > > > >> FROM tablename > > > >> ) AS foo > > > >> WHERE rownumber <= n > > > >> > > > >> Look up in the SQL standard under "window functions" for more details. > > > >> This is not implemented in Derby (Feature T611 Elementary OLAP > > > >> operations http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/SQLvsDerbyFeatures), > > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > Thanks, > > > >> > > > > >> > David > > > >> > > > > >> > On 5/14/07, Bernt M. Johnsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >What David wants, is the feature rgistered in > > > >> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-581 > > > >> > > > > > >> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Craig L Russell wrote (2007-05-13 12:06:38): > > > >> > >> >Also, how is maxrows related to the fetch size of a ResultSet? > > > >> > >> > > > >> > >> As I understand it, the fetch size relates to the number of rows > > > >> > >> returned by the server to the client for each round trip to the > > > >> > >> database. So theoretically the two numbers are independent. There's > > > >> > >> no specified interaction except for the obvious one: requesting a > > > >> > >> fetch size exceeding the maxrows doesn't make sense since there > > > >> will > > > >> > >> never be more than maxrows returned, and fetch size would > > > >> effectively > > > >> > >> be ignored. > > > >> > > > > > >> > >Fetch Size is in the JDBC spec defined to be an *optimization hint* > > > >> > >from the application to the driver. It has no semantic meaning > > > >> > >whatsoever, but may e.g. influence the number of rows prefetched per > > > >> > >roundtrip and thus influence the overall performance of your > > > >> > >application. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > >-- > > > >> > >Bernt Marius Johnsen, Database Technology Group, > > > >> > >Staff Engineer, Technical Lead Derby/Java DB > > > >> > >Sun Microsystems, Trondheim, Norway > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Bernt Marius Johnsen, Database Technology Group, > > > >> Staff Engineer, Technical Lead Derby/Java DB > > > >> Sun Microsystems, Trondheim, Norway > > > >> > > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > > >> > > > >> iD8DBQFGSLwalFBD9TXBAPARAjdsAJ9C1yWZCiA+G7kNwRVy81bzSQ/HsQCg2yDq > > > >> KUloXCu1N+PcB6BIzkkKQpY= > > > >> =RdA2 > > > >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > >
