How do I implement pagination in SQL for MS Access?

Question

I\'m accessing a Microsoft Access 2002 database (MDB) using ASP.NET through the OdbcConnection class, which works quite well albeit very slowly.

My quest

Answer 1

See astander's answer for the original answer, but here's my final implementation that takes into account some ODBC parser rules (for the first 15 records after skipping 30):

SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT Top 15 -- = PageSize
  *
  FROM
  (
   SELECT TOP 45 -- = StartPos + PageSize
   *
   FROM tblClient
   ORDER BY Client
  ) AS sub1
  ORDER BY sub1.Client DESC
 ) AS clients
ORDER BY Client

The difference here is that I need the pagination to work when sorted by client name, and I need all columns (well, actually just a subset, but I sort that out in the outer-most query).