Ok, here is the situation (using PHP / MySQL) you get the results from a large mysql table, let's say your mysql query returns 10,000 results of matching, and you have a page script to show 20 results per page, your query may look like this :
So page 1 request
SELECT column
FROM table_name
WHERE userId=1
AND somethingelse=something else
LIMIT 0,20
So page 2 request
SELECT column
FROM table_name
WHERE userId=1
AND somethingelse=something else
LIMIT 20,40
Now you get 20 results at a time, but there are 10,000 rows that match your search criteria,
How can you return only 3,000 of 10,000 results and still perform a search query of 20 per page using LIMIT 20 in your query?
I thought this was not possible, but myspace does it there, it views the page somewhere, I know that they do not use php / mysql, but how can this be achieved?
UPDATE
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