Skip first row in SQL Server 2005?

Question

We can select Top 10 or Select Top \'N\' row from SQL Server.

But is there any way to skip first row from the result of top??

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Answer 1

Something like this:

-- Test table
declare @T table(ID int)

-- Add test data
insert into @T 
select 1 union all
select 2 union all
select 3 union all
select 4 union all
select 5 union all
select 6

-- Query using row_number() over(...)
-- to get rows 2 - 5
select T.ID
from (
        select *,
               row_number() over(order by ID) as rn
        from @T       
     ) as T
where T.rn between 2 and 5

Answer 2

What you are looking for is the term paging. Like this: http://www.15seconds.com/issue/070628.htm

Answer 3

You could do something like this:

SELECT
    *
FROM (
        SELECT      
            row_number() OVER (ORDER BY ID DESC) AS [rownum],
            *
        FROM
            tbl
) T
WHERE 
    rownum BETWEEN (2) AND (5)

Update:

Updated to have your values.

Update 2:

Corrected error with missing sub query. Thanks to Chris Diver pointing this out.

Answer 4

You can use OVER clause and a ranking function. You can't filter on this directly so you need to us a sub query or a common table expression, the example below uses the latter.

DECLARE @MyTable TABLE 
(
    ID INT,
    Name VARCHAR(15)
)
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (1, 'Alice')
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (2, 'Bob')
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (3, 'Chris')
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (4, 'David')
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (5, 'Edgar')

;WITH people AS 
(
    SELECT ID, Name, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ID) RN
    FROM @MyTable
)
SELECT ID, Name
FROM people 
WHERE RN > 1

There will be better support for pagination in the next version of SQL Server (codename Denali) with the OFFSET and FETCH keywords.