Row Offset in SQL Server

Question

Is there any way in SQL Server to get the results starting at a given offset? For example, in another type of SQL database, it\'s possible to do:

SELECT * FR         


        

Answer 1

With SQL Server 2012 (11.x) and later and Azure SQL Database, you can also have "fetch_row_count_expression", you can also have ORDER BY clause along with this.

USE AdventureWorks2012;  
GO  
-- Specifying variables for OFFSET and FETCH values    
DECLARE @skip int = 0  , @take int = 8;  
SELECT DepartmentID, Name, GroupName  
FROM HumanResources.Department  
ORDER BY DepartmentID ASC   
    OFFSET @skip ROWS   
    FETCH NEXT @take ROWS ONLY; 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/select-order-by-clause-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

Note OFFSET Specifies the number of rows to skip before it starts to return rows from the query expression. It is NOT the starting row number. So, it has to be 0 to include first record.