Is there a more efficient way of making pagination in Hibernate than executing select and count queries?

Question

Usually pagination queries look like this. Is there a better way instead of making two almost equal methods, one of which executing \"select *...\" and the other one \"count

Answer 1

I found a way to do paging in hibernate without doing a select count (*) over a large dataset size. Look at the solution that I posted for my answer here.

processing a large number of database entries with paging slows down with time

you can perform paging one at a time without knowing how many pages you will need originally