http://agilewebmasters.com/robert/you-cant-sort-and-scale/ Take the lead out... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://agilewebmasters.com/robert/you-cant-sort-and-scale/#comment-8 robert Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:32:55 +0000 http://agilewebmasters.com/?p=25#comment-8 Thanks for making that initial jumble clearer. I'll do a follow up sometime on specific use cases and how to work around the long/impossible queries. Thanks for making that initial jumble clearer. I’ll do a follow up sometime on specific use cases and how to work around the long/impossible queries.

]]> http://agilewebmasters.com/robert/you-cant-sort-and-scale/#comment-5 Nick Ashley Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:48:30 +0000 http://agilewebmasters.com/?p=25#comment-5 Great post. I just wanted to clarify one thing. When limiting your resultset using the WHERE, it will return the correct items you need for the given page. However, these results themselves aren't necessary in the correct order for the page. (You will get positions 50-60, but not in numerical order). So you still need to ORDER BY to get what your looking for. The point Robert is making, is that by using a WHERE clause first, you are only ordering 10 posts, as opposed to all previous posts. Great post. I just wanted to clarify one thing. When limiting your resultset using the WHERE, it will return the correct items you need for the given page. However, these results themselves aren’t necessary in the correct order for the page. (You will get positions 50-60, but not in numerical order). So you still need to ORDER BY to get what your looking for. The point Robert is making, is that by using a WHERE clause first, you are only ordering 10 posts, as opposed to all previous posts.

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