SQL Server 2008 paging methods?

Question

I have to work with a potentially large list of records and I\'ve been Googling for ways to avoid selecting the whole list, instead I want to let users select a page (like f

Answer 1

Here's an updated version of @RoadWarrior's code, using TOP. Performance is identical, and extremely fast. Make sure you have an index on TestTable.ID

CREATE PROC dbo.PagingTest
    @SkipRows int,
    @GetRows int
AS
DECLARE @FirstId int

SELECT   TOP (@SkipRows) 
         @FirstId = [Id]
FROM     dbo.TestTable
ORDER BY [Id]

SELECT   TOP (@GetRows) *
FROM     dbo.TestTable
WHERE    [Id] >= @FirstId
ORDER BY [Id]

GO