Scenario in short: A table with more than 16 million records [2GB in size]. The higher LIMIT offset with SELECT, the slower the query becomes, when using ORDER BY *primary_key* So SELECT * FROM large ORDER BY `id` LIMIT 0, 30 takes far less than SELECT * FROM large ORDER BY `id` LIMIT 10000, 30 That only orders 30 records and same eitherway. So it's not the overhead from ORDER BY. Now when fetchin

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