# Database Performance

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/database-performance/93252>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 28, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/database-performance/93252 "2003-10-28T06:30:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![rysolag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba8739/32.png) [@rysolag](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rysolag)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/database-performance/93252/1 "2003-10-28T06:30:51Z")

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I have a question about pulling 1000’s of records from a database and efficiently displaying them.

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My record set has 5000 records and I want to display it using HTML. It would not be right to make a table with 5000 rows becuase it would take a long time and scrolling would be out of control. So I want to only write the first 50 to the screen and have previous and next buttons to bring up the next or previous set of 50 records. I know this is done all over the net(this site does it with these forums). How do I do this? Are there different options?

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Thanks,