>Hi, my 2 cents...
>
>I agree completely, LIMIT would be VERY usefull in web based apps, which
>is all I run. It does not matter to me if it is not part of a formal
>standard. The idea is so common that it is a defacto standard.
i'm not familiar with mysql and using "LIMIT" but wouldn't this same effect
be achieved by declaring a cursor and fetching however many records in the
cursor? it's a very noticeable improvement when you only want the first 20
out of 500 in a 200k record database, at least.
jeff
