Question

We can select Top 10 or Select Top 'N' row from SQL Server.

But is there any way to skip first row from the result of top??

I mean I get result from select top 5, then I skip the first row and get only next 4 rows?

Answer 1

You can use OVER clause and a ranking function. You can’t filter on this directly so you need to us a sub query or a common table expression, the example below uses the latter.

DECLARE @MyTable TABLE 
(
    ID INT,
    Name VARCHAR(15)
);
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (1, 'Alice');
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (2, 'Bob');
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (3, 'Chris');
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (4, 'David');
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (5, 'Edgar');

WITH people AS 
(
    SELECT ID, Name, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ID) RN
    FROM @MyTable
)
SELECT ID, Name
FROM people
WHERE RN > 1;

There will be better support for pagination in the next version of SQL Server (codename Denali) with the OFFSET and FETCH keywords.