>>Hi,
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>>Is there SQL Select that can be used to select X number of records without using TOP (I find TOP is too slow). The SQL Select will have a WHERE expression but I want to return only certain number of records even if WHERE finds more.
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>>TIA.
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>In SQL Server 2005 and up look up paging with ROW_NUMBER() function.
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>It will require a derived table approach or CTE
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>;with cte as (select ..., row_number() over (ORDER BY myOrder) as Row from myTable)
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>select .. from cte where Row <= @SomeNumber ORDER BY Row
Thank you. I might use this approach when having SQL Server database. But in this case I need it to work for VFP data.
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