How to Paginate Results in SQLite?

1. By Combining LIMIT and OFFSET

When dealing with large datasets, retrieving all records at once can be inefficient and resource-demanding. Pagination allows us to break down the results into smaller, more manageable parts. SQLite provides several methods to achieve pagination efficiently. Below are the methods which help us to find best way to paginate results in SQLite are as follow:

By Combining LIMIT and OFFSET
Using the ROW_NUMBER() Window Function

Let’s set up an environment for efficient paging.

To understand what is the best way to paginate results in SQLite we need a table on which we will perform various operations and queries. Here we will create table called employees which contains employee_id and employee_name as Columns.

CREATE TABLE employees (
        employee_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
        employee_name TEXT NOT NULL
    )

The Table structure has been created shown below:

employees table created without any errors

After Inserting various records into the employee table, The table looks.

Employees