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Asked: 2026-06-09T20:09:49+00:00

I am looking into doing some efficient paging and found this link that says

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I am looking into doing some efficient paging and found this link that says the “Holy Grail” is the best approach.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/66030/

Is the table just being used as an example, or is it actually part of the solution. What I mean is how would you do this with a table that has many joins, same approach? Can someone post an example?

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    Table “[INFORMATION_SCHEMA].columns” is just being used as an example.

    I’d use the same approach for a table that has many joins. Just make sure you have proper indexes.

    “Holy Grial” solution just gives you paged results plus a column indicating the total of rows, without overhead. You can get the total of rows on another query.

    Be aware of the article conclusion’s:

    ….this approach to be best suited for smaller resultsets from complex
    queries where I/O is the primary bottleneck. Jeff Moden, Peso and
    others here have pointed out that with larger resultsets, the I/O cost
    you save is more than outweighed by the CPU cost.

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