Retrieving only a fixed number of rows in MySQL

Question

I am testing my database design under load and I need to retrieve only a fixed number of rows (5000)

I can specify a LIMIT to achieve this, however it seems that th

Answer 1

 SELECT * FROM `your_table` LIMIT 0, 5000 

This will display the first 5000 results from the database.

 SELECT * FROM `your_table` LIMIT 1001, 5000 

This will show records from 1001 to 6000 (counting from 0).