Getting total row count from OFFSET / FETCH NEXT

Question

So, I've got a function that returns a number of records that I want to implement paging for on my website. It was suggested to me that I use the Offset/Fetch Next in SQL Server 2012 to accomplish this. On our website, we have an area that lists total number of records and what page you're on at the time.

Before, I was getting the entire record set and was able to build the paging on that programatically. But using the SQL way with FETCH NEXT X ROWS ONLY, I am only given back X rows, so I don't know what my total record set is and how to calculate my min and max pages. The only way I can tell of doing this is calling the function twice and doing a count of rows on the first, then running the second with FETCH NEXT. Is there a better way that won't have me running the query twice? I am trying to speed up performance, not slow it down.

Answer 1

You can use COUNT(*) OVER() ... here is a quick example using sys.all_objects:

DECLARE 
  @PageSize INT = 10, 
  @PageNum  INT = 1;

SELECT 
  name, object_id, 
  overall_count = COUNT(*) OVER()
FROM sys.all_objects
ORDER BY name
  OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
  FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY;

Answer 2

I encountered some performance issues using the COUNT() OVER() method. (I'm not sure if it was the server as it took 40 seconds to return 10 records and then later didn't have any issues.) This technique worked under all conditions without having to use COUNT() OVER() and accomplishes the same thing:

DECLARE 
    @PageSize INT = 10, 
    @PageNum  INT = 1;

WITH TempResult AS(
    SELECT ID, Name
    FROM Table
), TempCount AS (
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS MaxRows FROM TempResult
)
SELECT *
FROM TempResult, TempCount
ORDER BY TempResult.Name
    OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
    FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY

Answer 3

Based on James Moberg's answer:

This is an alternative using Row_Number(), if you don't have SQL server 2012 and you can't use OFFSET

DECLARE 
    @PageNumEnd INT = 10, 
    @PageNum  INT = 1;

WITH TempResult AS(
    SELECT ID, NAME
    FROM Tabla
), TempCount AS (
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS MaxRows FROM TempResult
)

select * 
from
(
    SELECT
     ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY PolizaId DESC) AS 'NumeroRenglon', 
     MaxRows, 
     ID,
     Name
    FROM TempResult, TempCount

)resultados
WHERE   NumeroRenglon >= @PageNum
    AND NumeroRenglon <= @PageNumEnd
ORDER BY NumeroRenglon