Speed of paged queries in Oracle

Question

This is a never-ending topic for me and I\'m wondering if I might be overlooking something. Essentially I use two types of SQL statements in an application:

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Answer 1

A "LIMIT ... OFFSET" is pretty much syntactic sugar. It might make the query look prettier, but if you still need to read the whole of a data set and sort it and get rows "50-60", then that's the work that has to be done.

If you have an index in the right order, then that can help.