How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
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I'm interested in learning some (ideally) database agnostic ways of selecting the nth row from a database table. It would also be interesting to see how this can be achieved using the native functionality of the following databases:
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Oracle
I am currently doing something like the following in SQL Server 2005, but I'd be interested in seeing other's more agnostic approaches:
WITH Ordered AS ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY OrderID) AS RowNumber, OrderID, OrderDate FROM Orders) SELECT * FROM Ordered WHERE RowNumber = 1000000
Credit for the above SQL: Firoz Ansari's Weblog
Update: See Troels Arvin's answer regarding the SQL standard. Troels, have you got any links we can cite?
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