I have a web application that displays registrations for various events. When there are more than 100 registrations for an event I would like to break the display into pages of 100 registrations each rather than list all of the registrations on one page. In such cases I want to have a summary page that has links to each of registration pages along with the range of names covered by that page. For example, a summary page might say:

1-100 (Adams-Clark)
101-200 (Collins-Easton)
201-300 (Edwards-Granger)


and so on. I know I can do this relatively easily in Perl by (pseudo-code):
1. SELECTing the total number of registrations and dividing by 100 to 
+get number of iterations for loop
2.  for (index=1; index < num_iterations; index++){
      SELECT RegistrantLastName FROM registrations ORDER BY Registrant
+LastName LIMIT (100 * (i-1)) + 1,1 AS RangeStart;
      SELECT RegistrantLastName FROM registrations ORDER BY Registrant
+LastName LIMIT (100 * i),1 AS RangeEnd;
    }

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If possible, though, I would like to stick this all in a single query so that the DBMS is doing as much of the work as possible (and simplifying the logic in the application code).
Thoughts?

In reply to Can this be done entirely in MySQL? by Anonymous Monk

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