SQL Server paging query

Question

Urggggg! I\'ve been struggling with this for a long time! I can do it with MySQL so easy but not with SQL Server :(

Here are the simplified tables which should be jo

Answer 1

This is how I would do it in SQL Server 2005+:

SELECT ID, Name, Photo, CreatedDate, rowNum, (rowNum / 20) + 1 as pageNum
FROM (
    SELECT a.ID, a.Name, b.Photo, c.Created_Date
       , Row_Number() OVER (ORDER BY c.Created_Date ASC) as rowNum
    FROM a
       JOIN b ON a.ID = b.ID
       JOIN c ON c.photo = b.photo
    WHERE c.Created_Date BETWEEN '2012-01-1' AND '2012-10-30'
) x
WHERE (rowNum / 20) + 1 = 1

Note that I'm using a little integer division trickery to calculate page number.

Since pre-2005 sadly doesn't have row_number(), I'd use an intermediate table with an identity column:

    SELECT a.ID, a.Name, b.Photo, c.Created_Date
       , identity(int,1,1) as rowNum
    INTO t
    FROM a
       JOIN b ON a.ID = b.ID
       JOIN c ON c.photo = b.photo
    WHERE c.Created_Date BETWEEN '2012-01-1' AND '2012-10-30'
    ORDER BY c.Created_Date ASC
    GO

    ALTER TABLE t ADD pageNum AS rowNum / 20
    GO

    SELECT ID, Name, Photo, Created_Date, rowNum
    FROM t
    WHERE pageNum = 1