>> Missing a record because someone deleted one while you was reading the

page isn't a big deal.

>Oh my, I hope none of your customers or bosses gets wind of this comment...

This is merely for the point of selecting a record from a list, nothing
more, it is acceptable in this case you will just have to trust me on that !

> It is simple, keep the "bookmark" information at the tail ends of the
> dataset you are presenting. If they say give me the next 20 rows the
> database will take the bookmark data and walk 20 more rows from there.

This

> amounts to a little bit of "state" being embedded in your HTML but it

works

> just fine to do it that way.
>
> The way I am suggesting it to be done gives the benefit of it being an
> efficient operation for the server to perform and it delivers accurate
> results to the client every time.
>
> What more can you ask for?

An example ? :-)

Remember, this would be from an ASP script, what type of bookmark do you
suggest ?