Code RoomPagination offset performance
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Pagination offset performance

Code reviewNetworking & APIsAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~18 min

Review this SQL-backed paginator used to export all orders. It loops, bumping OFFSET, until a page comes back empty.

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Mark a line and say what kind of problem it is.0 findings
1-- page N (0-indexed), page size 100
2SELECT id, customer_id, total, created_at
3FROM orders
4WHERE status = 'shipped'
5ORDER BY created_at
6LIMIT 100 OFFSET :n * 100;
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