<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 20, 2007, at 23:42, K J wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>I suppose the main problem is this... If I wanted to store the entire list, I would have to fetch the entire dataset from the DB, whereas if I were doing it via SQL queries, I would use paging.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Does this mean that I would, the first time a user logs in and interacts with this list, to fetch the entire set instead of say just page 1, then use the entire set when doing paging and other organizing?</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>You can do it in whatever way makes the most sense to you. Memcached should always be faster than the DB, and it's *much* easier to scale. A cache miss means you have to do another request to get more data, and then do a cache set. Otherwise, just imagine how you want something to work, think about this layer being cheap, and start experimenting.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Dustin Sallings</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>