Select (*) alternative - using jQuery datatables plugin

Question

I am using jQuery dataTables plugin in a custom phonebook I have created for my organizations phonebook. The issue that I am having is that since I am using the SELECT * from Table command on a table with some 3000+ rows, dataTables wants to load the entire SQL table before loading and it causes the page to lag terribly. Is there a better way to do this? My reason for using dataTables is it has a custom jQuery search option which works beautifully.

I have tried using SELECT TOP but it will not return anything but the first hundred or however many specified.

Answer 1

You can load partial data and use ajax to load more data when the user pages through the result. Have a look at the example they provide.

https://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/server_side/pipeline.html

Answer 2

Try AJAX paging, like Vlad says.

Also check out the bDeferRender option (look it up here ). If set to true you definitely experience faster page load. I dont know if that will be fast enough without server-side paging though. And what about the stress put on the DB?