Getting total row count from OFFSET / FETCH NEXT

Question

So, I\'ve got a function that returns a number of records that I want to implement paging for on my website. It was suggested to me that I use the Offset/Fetch Next in SQL

Answer 1

Based on James Moberg's answer:

This is an alternative using Row_Number(), if you don't have SQL server 2012 and you can't use OFFSET

DECLARE 
    @PageNumEnd INT = 10, 
    @PageNum  INT = 1;

WITH TempResult AS(
    SELECT ID, NAME
    FROM Tabla
), TempCount AS (
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS MaxRows FROM TempResult
)

select * 
from
(
    SELECT
     ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY PolizaId DESC) AS 'NumeroRenglon', 
     MaxRows, 
     ID,
     Name
    FROM TempResult, TempCount

)resultados
WHERE   NumeroRenglon >= @PageNum
    AND NumeroRenglon <= @PageNumEnd
ORDER BY NumeroRenglon

Answer 2

I encountered some performance issues using the COUNT() OVER() method. (I'm not sure if it was the server as it took 40 seconds to return 10 records and then later didn't have any issues.) This technique worked under all conditions without having to use COUNT() OVER() and accomplishes the same thing:

DECLARE 
    @PageSize INT = 10, 
    @PageNum  INT = 1;

WITH TempResult AS(
    SELECT ID, Name
    FROM Table
), TempCount AS (
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS MaxRows FROM TempResult
)
SELECT *
FROM TempResult, TempCount
ORDER BY TempResult.Name
    OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
    FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY

Answer 3

You can use COUNT(*) OVER() ... here is a quick example using sys.all_objects:

DECLARE 
  @PageSize INT = 10, 
  @PageNum  INT = 1;

SELECT 
  name, object_id, 
  overall_count = COUNT(*) OVER()
FROM sys.all_objects
ORDER BY name
  OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
  FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY;

However, this should be reserved for small data sets; on larger sets, the performance can be abysmal. See this Paul White article for better alternatives, including maintaining indexed views (which only works if the result is unfiltered or you know WHERE clauses in advance) and using ROW_NUMBER() tricks.