Equivalent of LIMIT and OFFSET for SQL Server?

Question

In PostgreSQL there is the Limit and Offset keywords which will allow very easy pagination of result sets.

What is the equivalent syntax f

Answer 1

Since nobody provided this code yet:

SELECT TOP @limit f1, f2, f3...
FROM t1
WHERE c1 = v1, c2 > v2...
AND
    t1.id NOT IN
        (SELECT TOP @offset id
         FROM t1
         WHERE c1 = v1, c2 > v2...
         ORDER BY o1, o2...)
ORDER BY o1, o2...

Important points:

• ORDER BY must be identical
• @limit can be replaced with number of results to retrieve,
• @offset is number of results to skip
• Please compare performance with previous solutions as they may be more efficient
• this solution duplicates where and order by clauses, and will provide incorrect results if they are out of sync
• on the other hand order by is there explicitly if that's what's needed

Answer 2

select top (@TakeCount) * --FETCH NEXT
from(
    Select  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (order by StartDate) AS rowid,*
    From YourTable
)A
where Rowid>@SkipCount --OFFSET

Answer 3

select top {LIMIT HERE} * from (
      select *, ROW_NUMBER() over (order by {ORDER FIELD}) as r_n_n 
      from {YOUR TABLES} where {OTHER OPTIONAL FILTERS}
) xx where r_n_n >={OFFSET HERE}

A note: This solution will only work in SQL Server 2005 or above, since this was when ROW_NUMBER() was implemented.

Answer 4

Another sample :

declare @limit int 
declare @offset int 
set @offset = 2;
set @limit = 20;
declare @count int
declare @idxini int 
declare @idxfim int 
select @idxfim = @offset * @limit
select @idxini = @idxfim - (@limit-1);
WITH paging AS
    (
        SELECT 
             ROW_NUMBER() OVER (order by object_id) AS rowid, *
        FROM 
            sys.objects 
    )
select *
    from 
        (select COUNT(1) as rowqtd from paging) qtd, 
            paging 
    where 
        rowid between @idxini and @idxfim
    order by 
        rowid;

Answer 5

Adding a slight variation on Aaronaught's solution, I typically parametrize page number (@PageNum) and page size (@PageSize). This way each page click event just sends in the requested page number along with a configurable page size:

begin
    with My_CTE  as
    (
         SELECT col1,
              ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY col1) AS row_number
     FROM
          My_Table
     WHERE
          <<<whatever>>>
    )
    select * from My_CTE
            WHERE RowNum BETWEEN (@PageNum - 1) * (@PageSize + 1) 
                              AND @PageNum * @PageSize

end

Answer 6

Since, I test more times this script more useful by 1 million records each page 100 records with pagination work faster my PC execute this script 0 sec while compare with mysql have own limit and offset about 4.5 sec to get the result.

Someone may miss understanding Row_Number() always sort by specific field. In case we need to define only row in sequence should use:

ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL))

SELECT TOP {LIMIT} * FROM (
      SELECT TOP {LIMIT} + {OFFSET} ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) AS ROW_NO,*
      FROM  {TABLE_NAME}
) XX WHERE ROW_NO > {OFFSET}

Explain:

• {LIMIT}: Number of records for each page
• {OFFSET}: Number of skip records