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ChrisF
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There are a number of reasons for having pagination, reducing server load is just one.

Others include:

  • Reducing the amount of data returned to the client in one go. If you have a lot of data this could take some considerable amount of time and take up a lot of memory.
  • The user often isn't interested in all the data, but only the most recent (say). By returning only a couple of pages of data you aren't getting data the user is never going to see.

In both of these cases you don't want to make the user wait - either for data they aren't going to view, or for all the data when they could be getting one with processing some of it.

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