thanks all for the help!

On Sep 29, 3:51 am, Hugo Kornelis
<h...@perFact.REMOVETHIS.info.INVALID> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:12:25 -0700, Nick Chan wrote:
> >hello, what are the strategies when designing tables that needs
> >paging?
> >in the past i used to use
>
> > select top 200 * from table
> > where id not in (select top 100 id from table)
>
> >with SQL 2005, would u guys recommend using CTE and/or ROW_NUMBER?
>
> >or any other advice?
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> With SQL Server 2005, I'd definitely consider the CTE + ROW_NUMBER
> approach. The odds are very high that this will perform better than any
> other technique - though it's still odds; you'll have to run your own
> tests to find out what REALLY is best on your hardware, your data, etc.
>
> Many other techniques are described at the page below; unfortunately it
> has not yet been updated for SQL Server 2005 :-((
>
> http://databases.aspfaq.com/database...ugh-a-recordse...
>
> --
> Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP
> My SQL Server blog:http://sqlblog.com/blogs/hugo_kornelis