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What's the performance difference between Page and Slice?

Page executes your paginated query plus a separate COUNT query to report the total number of results. Slice skips that count query entirely, only fetching one extra row to determine whether a next page exists — cheaper, but it can't tell you the total page count.

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What's the performance difference between Page and Slice?

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