Pagination query for mssql server 2008 Throwing Incorrect syntax near 'OFFSET'

Question

I am Working on pagination in jsp(and i am new to writing sql).

I done my research and found simple queries from

pagination in SQL server 2008 and How to d

Answer 1

DECLARE @Page int
SET @Page = 2
DECLARE @Amount int
SET @Amount = 25
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY group_id) AS rownumber, * FROM table_name 
WHERE Column LIKE '%Search_Value%') as somex  
WHERE  rownumber >= (@Page+1)* @Amount-(@Amount - 1) AND rownumber <= (@Page+1) * @Amount

I took it one step further. Added some variables to make inputting the information a little better. At my company we have older databases so this feed helped me a lot.