How to skip the first n rows in sql query

Question

I want to fire a Query \"SELECT * FROM TABLE\" but select only from row N+1. Any idea on how to do this?

Answer 1

Do you want something like in LINQ skip 5 and take 10?

SELECT TOP(10) * FROM MY_TABLE  
WHERE ID not in (SELECT TOP(5) ID From My_TABLE);

This approach will work in any SQL version.

Answer 2

Use this:

SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader 
ORDER BY OrderDate
OFFSET (@Skip) ROWS FETCH NEXT (@Take) ROWS ONLY

https://stackoverflow.com/a/19669165/1883345

Answer 3

I know it's quite late now to answer the query. But I have a little different solution than the others which I believe has better performance because no comparisons are performed in the SQL query only sorting is done. You can see its considerable performance improvement basically when value of SKIP is LARGE enough.

1. Best performance but only for SQL Server 2012 and above. Originally from @Majid Basirati's answer which is worth mentioning again.

   DECLARE @Skip INT = 2, @Take INT = 2
   
   SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME
   ORDER BY ID ASC
   OFFSET (@Skip) ROWS FETCH NEXT (@Take) ROWS ONLY
   

2. Not as Good as the first one but compatible with SQL Server 2005 and above.

   DECLARE @Skip INT = 2, @Take INT = 2
   
   SELECT * FROM 
   (
       SELECT TOP (@Take) * FROM 
       (
           SELECT TOP (@Take + @Skip) * FROM TABLE_NAME
           ORDER BY ID ASC
       ) T1
       ORDER BY ID DESC
   ) T2
   ORDER BY ID ASC
   

Answer 4

This works with all DBRM/SQL, it is standard ANSI:

SELECT *
  FROM owner.tablename A
 WHERE condition
  AND  n+1 <= (
         SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT b.column_order)
           FROM owner.tablename B
          WHERE condition
            AND b.column_order>a.column_order
          )
ORDER BY a.column_order DESC

Answer 5

For SQL Server 2012 and later versions, the best method is @MajidBasirati's answer.

I also loved @CarlosToledo's answer, it's not limited to any SQL Server version but it's missing Order By Clauses. Without them, it may return wrong results.

For SQL Server 2008 and later I would use Common Table Expressions for better performance.

-- This example omits first 10 records and select next 5 records
;WITH MyCTE(Id) as
(
    SELECT TOP (10) Id 
    FROM MY_TABLE
    ORDER BY Id
)
SELECT TOP (5) * 
FROM MY_TABLE
    INNER JOIN MyCTE ON (MyCTE.Id <> MY_TABLE.Id) 
ORDER BY Id