Question

I’m using SQL Server 2012 and I was wondering if there is a way to select, for example, the third result from a query. I have looked into LIMIT and OFFSET but I’m not 100% sure if it applies to SQL Server, however I’ve been told that there is something to do what I want in SQL Server 2012.

Answer 1

SELECT  *
FROM     YourTable
ORDER BY OrderingColumn ASC 
OFFSET  2 ROWS /*Skip first 2 rows*/
FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY 

Note: You cannot use OFFSET ... FETCH without doing an ORDER BY first