SQL Query: How can I get data of row with number 1000 direclty?

Question

If I have a SQL Table called Persons that contain about 30000 rows and I want to make a SQL query that retrieve the data of row number 1000 ... I got it by non

Answer 1

In SQL Server 2005+ you can use the following:

WITH MyCte AS 
(
    SELECT
        [CategoryId]
        ,[CategoryName]
        ,[CategoryDescription]
        ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CategoryId ASC) AS RowNum
    FROM
        [Carmack].[dbo].[job_Categories]
)
SELECT *
FROM    MyCte
WHERE   RowNum = 3