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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:09:37+00:00

I’ve got a SQL statement in SQL Server 2005 that looks something like this:

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I’ve got a SQL statement in SQL Server 2005 that looks something like this:

SELECT * INTO #TempTable FROM FirstTable WHERE <complex where clause>

What I would really, really like is to have the resulting temp table have an extra field that is essentially an integer field counting from 1 up in the order the where clause returned the records.

Is this possible?

(Essentially, I want to be able to return a subset of the records returned from the first select statement, along the lines of ‘lines 45 through 179’.)

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  1. Try this, using Row_Number:

    -- insert into temp table SELECT *,    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY SortColumn) AS SortColumn INTO #TempTable  FROM FirstTable  WHERE <complex where clause>  -- check the results and drop the table SELECT * FROM #TempTable WHERE SortColumn BETWEEN 45 AND 179 ORDER BY SortColumn DROP TABLE  #TempTable

    Obviously you’ll need to replace SortColumn with whatever makes sense in your case

    Edit:

    If you’re just trying to do paging, there are lots of examples of that:

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