> Could be a possibility to make a "permanent" result set ?
>
> Like this:
>
> Select first 20 skip 0 from Customers order by Name desc KEEP
> RESULTSET X
> ...
> and so on...

Even if it is possible, it is too non-standard and at least for Java
people that will be no so easy to grok, why this thing is needed for a
decent speed.

Roman