Question

I have the following SQL statement:

SELECT [id], [name]
FROM [dbo.test_db_002] t1
LEFT JOIN [dbo.test_db_003] t2 ON t1.[id] = t2.[itmid]
ORDER BY t2.[iid] ASC;

This seems very simple, but I can’t figure it out. I need to add LIMIT N,M to it to retrieve M items from the N’th one, but I keep getting errors around ‘limit’ word. I tried putting that LIMIT clause everywhere I could inside the sql statement above with no avail.

PS. I’m writing for SQL Server that comes with VS2010.

Answer 1

To answer for your query, you may want: (depending on your values for M and N)

WITH cte AS
(
   SELECT [id], [name], ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY t2.[iid] ASC) AS rowNumber
   FROM [dbo.test_db_002] t1
   LEFT JOIN [dbo.test_db_003] t2 ON t1.[id] = t2.[itmid]
)
SELECT [id], [name]
FROM cte
WHERE rowNumber BETWEEN 3 AND 5

Something to watch out for, the values in the between are BETWEEN N AND N + M

Also, here’s a link with information about Common Table Expressions which is the WITH cte syntax I used.