Question

I am trying Dapper ORM and I am querying a a Posts table.

But I would like to get paged results …

1 – How can I do this? Isn’t there a helper for this?

2 – Can Dapper Query return an IQueryable?

Thank You,
Miguel

Answer 1

1) Dapper doesn’t have a built-in pagination feature. But its not too hard to implement it directly in the query. Example:

SELECT  *
FROM    ( SELECT    ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY InsertDate) AS RowNum, *
          FROM      Posts
          WHERE     InsertDate >= '1900-01-01'
        ) AS result
WHERE   RowNum >= 1 // *your pagination parameters
    AND RowNum < 20  //*
ORDER BY RowNum

Requires SQL Server 2005+

2) Dapper returns an IEnumerable<T>.