select the TOP N rows from a table

Question

I am making some paging, and I need to make some query and get the result form defined slicing . for example: I need to get all \"top\" rows in range 20n < x < 40n et

Answer 1

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SELECT * FROM master_question WHERE 1 ORDER BY question_id ASC LIMIT 20

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Answer 2

From SQL Server 2012 you can use a native pagination in order to have semplicity and best performance:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/select-order-by-clause-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15#using-offset-and-fetch-to-limit-the-rows-returned

Your query become:

SELECT * FROM Reflow  
WHERE ReflowProcessID = somenumber
ORDER BY ID DESC;
OFFSET 20 ROWS  
FETCH NEXT 20 ROWS ONLY;  

Answer 3

select * from table_name LIMIT 100

remember this only works with MYSQL

Answer 4

Assuming your page size is 20 record, and you wanna get page number 2, here is how you would do it:

SQL Server, Oracle:

SELECT *   -- <-- pick any columns here from your table, if you wanna exclude the RowNumber
FROM (SELECT ROW_NUMBER OVER(ORDER BY ID DESC) RowNumber, * 
      FROM Reflow  
      WHERE ReflowProcessID = somenumber) t
WHERE RowNumber >= 20 AND RowNumber <= 40    

MySQL:

SELECT * 
FROM Reflow  
WHERE ReflowProcessID = somenumber
ORDER BY ID DESC
LIMIT 20 OFFSET 20

Answer 5

In MySql, you can get 10 rows starting from row 20 using:

SELECT * FROM Reflow  
WHERE ReflowProcessID = somenumber
ORDER BY ID DESC
LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20 --Equivalent to LIMIT 20, 10