SQL Server OFFSET equivalent

Question

Hello everyone,

I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on Windows Server 2008. I want to select result from top 11 to top 20 (e.g. I am only interested in the 11th to the 20th result). Any ideas how to write this query in tsql efficiently?

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

Assuming a sort field PK,

select top 10 * from MyTable
where PK not in (select top 10 PK from Mytable order by PK)
order by PK

Edit: here's a variant

select top 10 * from 
(select top 20 * from MyTable order by PK) as MySelection
order by PK desc

Answer 2

Unfortunately SQL Server does not offer anything similar to MySQL's OFFSET syntax. However, you may want to try using a derived table as follows:

SELECT some_field
FROM   (
          SELECT some_field, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY some_id) AS rownum
          FROM   table
       ) AS t
WHERE  t.rownum BETWEEN 11 AND 20