How to use OFFSET and Fetch without Order by in SQL Server

Question

I want use OFFSET and Fetch in my SQL server 2012 query.But without any order by.I can not use order by.Because my sort order will be lost. How can I use OFFSET and Fetch withou

Answer 1

Offset/Fetch requires an order by clause. You can use the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP to bypass this requirement if you don't want to go by any order. I am not sure but, this should return rows based on the order of storage (clustered index maybe)

So changing your code to this should solve the issue -

INSERT INTO @TempTable [some columns]  
select [some columns] from table1 order by col1 
INSERT INTO @TempTable [same columns]
select [some columns] from table2 order by col2
select * from @TempTable **order by current_timestamp** OFFSET 20 ROWS FETCH NEXT 50 ROWS ONLY