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How do you paginate efficiently in SQL?

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Explain pagination.

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LIMIT/OFFSET is simple but slow for deep pages (it scans and discards). Keyset (seek) pagination uses a WHERE on the last seen sorted key (WHERE id > :lastId ORDER BY id LIMIT n), which stays fast regardless of page depth.

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