How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?

Question

I\'m interested in learning some (ideally) database agnostic ways of selecting the nth row from a database table. It would also be interesting to see how this can b

Answer 1

For example, if you want to select every 10th row in MSSQL, you can use;

SELECT * FROM (
  SELECT
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ColumnName1 ASC) AS rownumber, ColumnName1, ColumnName2
  FROM TableName
) AS foo
WHERE rownumber % 10 = 0

Just take the MOD and change number 10 here any number you want.