in my reply I was referring to the recordset, not the looper.
even if you set the looper to only return 4 columns and 4 or 5 rows, a memory issue may occur if your recordset returns an extremely large result.
using only 4 columns and 4 or 5 rows in the looper only effects how mush of the data returned by the recordset is used on the page, the recordset an still be much bigger