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Question

I\'m try to select a certain rows from my table using the row_number over. However, the sql will prompt the error msg \"Invalid column name \'ROWNUMBERS\' \". Anyone can cor

Answer 1

There is another answer here that solves the specific error reported. However, I also want to address the wider problem. It looks a lot like what you are doing here is paging your results for display. If that is the case, and if you can use Sql Server 2012, there is a better way now. Take a look at OFFSET/FETCH:

SELECT First Name + ' ' + Last Name 
FROM Employees 
ORDER BY First Name 
OFFSET 10 ROWS FETCH NEXT 5 ROWS ONLY;

That would show the third page of a query where the page size is 5.