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

In SqlServer2005 you can do the following:

DECLARE @Limit INT
DECLARE @Offset INT
SET @Offset = 120000
SET @Limit = 10

SELECT 
    * 
FROM
(
   SELECT 
       row_number() 
   OVER 
      (ORDER BY column) AS rownum, column2, column3, .... columnX
   FROM   
     table
) AS A
WHERE 
 A.rownum BETWEEN (@Offset) AND (@Offset + @Limit-1) 

Answer 2

See my select for paginator

SELECT TOP @limit * FROM (
   SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY colunx ASC) offset, * FROM (

     -- YOU SELECT HERE
     SELECT * FROM mytable


   ) myquery
) paginator
WHERE offset > @offset

This solves the pagination ;)

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

For tables with more and large data columns, I prefer:

SELECT 
  tablename.col1,
  tablename.col2,
  tablename.col3,
  ...
FROM
(
  (
    SELECT
      col1
    FROM 
    (
      SELECT col1, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY col1 ASC) AS RowNum
      FROM tablename
      WHERE ([CONDITION])
    )
    AS T1 WHERE T1.RowNum BETWEEN [OFFSET] AND [OFFSET + LIMIT]
  )
  AS T2 INNER JOIN tablename ON T2.col1=tablename.col1
);

-

[CONDITION] can contain any WHERE clause for searching.
[OFFSET] specifies the start,
[LIMIT] the maximum results.

It has much better performance on tables with large data like BLOBs, because the ROW_NUMBER function only has to look through one column, and only the matching rows are returned with all columns.