Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Sep 19 09:07:20 CDT 2005
Hi Shamil: I would suspect that Google uses an advanced custom designed OLAP database engine where virtually ever field is indexed and weighted. I understand that their databases reside on Linux boxes. A free (trial?) small version of the Google engine/service can be acquired at https://services.google.com/cobrand/free_trial HTH Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 6:35 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Question > mysql> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 5,10; # Retrieve rows 6-15 Does Google use mySQL? Shamil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Question > On 19 Sep 2005 at 11:18, Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Here is a query, which selects rows 49,50 from Customers table assuming that > > CustomerID is used for rows ordering: > > > .... > > > > Does anybody knows/heard/... do Google and other search engines use similar > > simple queries > > Repeat of my posting to this list on 7 May 2005: > > On 6 May 2005 at 10:43, Joe Rojas wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > How do sites like eBay show only X number of items at a time and allow users to jump to a page number or click next? > > > > Is there a SQL statement that allows you to select the 2nd > > (3rd,4th,5th,...)set of X number of records in a database? > > > > If they are using MySQL they will be using the LIMIT command > > </quote> > The LIMIT clause can be used to constrain the number of rows returned by > the SELECT statement. LIMIT takes one or two numeric arguments, which must > be integer constants. > > With two arguments, the first argument specifies the offset of the first > row to return, and the second specifies the maximum number of rows to > return. The offset of the initial row is 0 (not 1): > > mysql> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 5,10; # Retrieve rows 6-15 > </quote> > -- > Stuart > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com