.net - How do I write LINQ's .Skip(1000).Take(100) in pure SQL?

Question

What is the SQL equivalent of the .Skip() method in LINQ?

For example: I would like to select rows 1000-1100 from a specific database table.

Is this possible with just SQL? Or do I need to select the entire table, then find the rows in memory? I'd ideally like to avoid this, if possible, since the table can be quite large.

Answer 1

SQL Server 2012 and above have added this syntax:

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