SELECT certain number of rows

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004329 More actions · Answer 1

Indexed multi-table view... multi-table SELECT... which one will you call UPDATEable? Neither in all likely hood. An update would have to be something separate... paging isn't used to update... 😉

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RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff Moden (3/13/2008)
Indexed multi-table view... multi-table SELECT... which one will you call UPDATEable? Neither in all likely hood. An update would have to be something separate... paging isn't used to update... 😉

Agreed. Just making sure:).

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shamas saeed SSC-Addicted Points: 458 More actions · Answer 3

all possible ways are discussed above but think about

not in using top

select top 10 *

from table

where id not in (select top 20 id from table)

and cte

WITH Folder (IsUserFolder ,ParentFolderRowGUID ,RowGUID)

AS

(

SELECT *

FROM dbo.tblFolder AS P

whereRowGUID = @pRowGUID

UNION ALL

SELECT P.*

FROM dbo.tblFolder AS P

INNER JOIN Folder AS d

ON p.RowGUID = d.ParentFolderRowGUID

)

select top 1 * FROM Folder

where class filters the records

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 4

Using Adam's sample data:

-- Top 21 TO 30 (less than one second)

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM (

SELECT TOP 30 * FROM dbo.TestData ORDER BY RowNum

) t ORDER BY RowNum DESC

-- Top 999,981 to 999,990 (one second)

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM (

SELECT TOP 999990 * FROM dbo.TestData ORDER BY RowNum

) t ORDER BY RowNum DESC

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

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