Selecting Nth Record in an SQL Query

Question

I have an SQL Query that i\'m running but I only want to select a specific row. For example lets say my query was:

Select * from Comments

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Answer 1

In SQL 2000 where you do not have ROW_NUMBER() function you could use a work-around like this:

SELECT CommentsTableFieldList, IDENTITY(INT, 1,1) as seqNo 
INTO #SeqComments 
FROM Comments

SELECT * FROM #SeqComments 
WHERE seqNo = 8