Best practice for pagination in Oracle?

Question

Problem: I need write stored procedure(s) that will return result set of a single page of rows and the number of total rows.

Solution A: I create tw

Answer 1

This may help:

   SELECT * FROM 
     ( SELECT deptno, ename, sal, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ename) Row_Num FROM emp)
     WHERE Row_Num BETWEEN 5 and 10;