Question

I have 100 records in which i can select top 10 using the ‘TOP 10’ in the query. Similarly is there anything to get the 20th to 30th record?

Answer 1

Since you are using SQL Server 2005 you can use the ‘new’ ROW_NUMBER() function. This will give you row 11 to 20:

SELECT  Description, Date FROM     (SELECT  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Date DESC)              AS Row, Description, Date FROM LOG)             AS LogWithRowNumbers WHERE  Row >= 11 AND Row <= 20 

If you have a lot of records, using TOP X in the inner SELECT clause may speed up things a bit as there is no use returning 1000 records if you are only going to grab records 11 through 20:

SELECT  Description, Date FROM     (SELECT TOP 20 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Date DESC)              AS Row, Description, Date FROM LOG)             AS LogWithRowNumbers WHERE  Row >= 11 AND Row <= 20 

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