What is the difference between MySQL LIMIT range of 0,500 and 1, 500?

Question

If I want in MySQL rows 1 through 500, should I use LIMIT 0, 500 or LIMIT, 1, 500? What is the difference? Thanks!

Accepted Answer

The first one starts from the first record of the whole result, while the second one starts on the second record of the result.

Consider the following records

```
ID
1 -- index of the first record is zero.
2
3
4
5
6
```

if you execute

```
LIMIT 0, 3
-- the result will be ID: 1,2,3

LIMIT 1, 3
-- the result will be ID: 2,3,4
```

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OTHER(s)

- Limit - MySQL Command (for more info)

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