Paging SQL Server 2005 Results

Question

How do I page results in SQL Server 2005?

I tried it in SQL Server 2000, but there was no reliable way to do this. I\'m now wondering if SQL Server 2005 has any buil

Answer 1

Here's what I do for paging: All of my big queries that need to be paged are coded as inserts into a temp table. The temp table has an identity field that will act in a similar manner to the row_number() mentioned above. I store the number of rows in the temp table in an output parameter so the calling code knows how many total records there are. The calling code also specifies which page it wants, and how many rows per page, which are selected out from the temp table.

The cool thing about doing it this way is that I also have an "Export" link that allows you to get all rows from the report returned as CSV above every grid in my application. This link uses the same stored procedure: you just return the contents of the temp table instead of doing the paging logic. This placates users who hate paging, and want to see everything, and want to sort it in a million different ways.