Not a direct answer to your question, but you probably don't want to return a page with a table with 1000+ rows in it. For one thing, you may kill some browsers. If it doesn't kill the browser, it'd probably take aeons to render it.

A better solution might be to return just a subset of the records (10, 25, or 50 are popular choices) and provide a means to page through the results (pass along an extra couple of paramters that are the chunk size and the current location in the result set).