<blockquote>What do you mean by "skip everything" and "get stuck". Do you mean like a car getting stuck in the mud (or snow) and not going anywhere anymore?.</blockquote> Pretty-much that, yes. When I grab the first screen-full of rows (order by ascending - no "where" clause) and than try to get the next batch from there I get a blank screen (zero results). When I grab the last screen-full of rows (order by descending - again no "where" clause) and try to get the previous batch from there I get the same batch again. The wheels are spinning but I'm not going anywhere. :-\ But you are responding as if the above is new to you. Am I really the first one here who tries to browse thru an sqlite3 DB and is running into these problems ? Blimy...