How to implement LIMIT with Microsoft SQL Server?

Question

I have this query with mysql :

select * from table1 LIMIT 10,20

How can I do this with Microsoft sql ?

Answer 1

Must try. In below query, you can see group by, order by, Skip rows, and limit rows.

select emp_no , sum(salary_amount) from emp_salary
Group by emp_no 
ORDER BY emp_no 
OFFSET 5 ROWS       -- Skip first 5 
FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY; -- limit to retrieve next 10 row after skiping rows

Answer 2

If i remember correctly (it's been a while since i dabbed with SQL Server) you may be able to use something like this: (2005 and up)

SELECT
    *
   ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY SomeFields) AS [RowNum]
FROM SomeTable
WHERE RowNum BETWEEN 10 AND 20

Answer 3

This is almost a duplicate of a question I asked in October: Emulate MySQL LIMIT clause in Microsoft SQL Server 2000

If you're using Microsoft SQL Server 2000, there is no good solution. Most people have to resort to capturing the result of the query in a temporary table with a IDENTITY primary key. Then query against the primary key column using a BETWEEN condition.

If you're using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later, you have a ROW_NUMBER() function, so you can get the same result but avoid the temporary table.

SELECT t1.*
FROM (
    SELECT ROW_NUMBER OVER(ORDER BY id) AS row, t1.*
    FROM ( ...original SQL query... ) t1
) t2
WHERE t2.row BETWEEN @offset+1 AND @offset+@count;

You can also write this as a common table expression as shown in @Leon Tayson's answer.

Answer 4

Starting SQL SERVER 2005, you can do this...

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
WITH OrderedOrders AS
(
    SELECT SalesOrderID, OrderDate,
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY OrderDate) AS 'RowNumber'
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader 
) 
SELECT * 
FROM OrderedOrders 
WHERE RowNumber BETWEEN 10 AND 20;

or something like this for 2000 and below versions...

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM (SELECT TOP 20 FROM Table ORDER BY Id) ORDER BY Id DESC

Answer 5

If your ID is unique identifier type or your id in table is not sorted you must do like this below.

select * from
(select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (select 0)) AS RowNumber,* from table1) a
where a.RowNumber between 2 and 5

The code will be

select * from limit 2,5

Answer 6

Syntactically MySQL LIMIT query is something like this:

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT OFFSET, ROW_COUNT

This can be translated into Microsoft SQL Server like

SELECT * FROM 
(
    SELECT TOP #{OFFSET+ROW_COUNT} *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS rnum 
    FROM table
) a
WHERE rnum > OFFSET

Now your query select * from table1 LIMIT 10,20 will be like this:

SELECT * FROM 
(
    SELECT TOP 30 *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS rnum 
    FROM table1
) a
WHERE rnum > 10