Question

How do I page results in SQL Server 2005?

I tried it in SQL Server 2000, but there was no reliable way to do this. I’m now wondering if SQL Server 2005 has any built in method?

What I mean by paging is, for example, if I list users by their username, I want to be able to only return the first 10 records, then the next 10 records and so on.

Answer 1

You can use the Row_Number() function. Its used as follows:

SELECT Row_Number() OVER(ORDER BY UserName) As RowID, UserFirstName, UserLastName FROM Users 

From which it will yield a result set with a RowID field which you can use to page between.

SELECT *  FROM      ( SELECT Row_Number() OVER(ORDER BY UserName) As RowID, UserFirstName, UserLastName       FROM Users      ) As RowResults WHERE RowID Between 5 AND 10 

etc