Question

What would be the most efficient way to do a paging query in SQLServer 2000?

Where a ‘paging query’ would be the equivalent of using the LIMIT statement in MySQL.

EDIT: Could a stored procedure be more efficient than any set based query in that case?

Answer 1

Paging of Large Resultsets and the winner is using RowCount. Also there’s a generalized version for more complex queries. But give credit to Jasmin Muharemovic 🙂

DECLARE @Sort /* the type of the sorting column */ SET ROWCOUNT @StartRow SELECT @Sort = SortColumn FROM Table ORDER BY SortColumn SET ROWCOUNT @PageSize SELECT ... FROM Table WHERE SortColumn >= @Sort ORDER BY SortColumn 

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