Efficient way of getting @@rowcount from a query using row_number

Question

I have an expensive query using the row_number over() functionality in SQL Server 2005. I return only a sub list of those records as the query is paginated. However, I wou

Answer 1

I do this by putting the whole resultset with the row_number into a temp table, then use the @@rowcount from that and use the query on that to return the page of data I need.