Note: Please check the original question placed in Q+A, with the title How to display from X to Y records using DBI?. I am moving the topic to Seekers of Perl Wisdom because I still have a few doubts (although the question was answered very well) and Q+A doesn't really provide a threaded discussion format.

OK, now that we got that out of the way... Thanks as usual guys (chromatic and btrott)! You're saviors! :o)

Back to chromatic's reply, I was wondering if the method
# we want 0 through 20
foreach my $row (@$array_ref[0 .. 20]) {
    # do something
}

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might be an overkill... I'll explain:
What if my execute() returns more than 50,000 rows. What would DBI do with them if I used the above mentioned? Would I still be populating the @$array_ref[] with 50,000 keys? Would there still be 50,000 rows of traffic between DBD and MySQL?

cheers!

In reply to More on selecting rows with DBI... by BBQ

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