SQL server Query help

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I've written a query which retrieves top 5 records from a table like this

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SELECT Top(5)  Activity, GETUTCDATE() as CurrentDate
    FROM Activities
    WHERE UserID = @uid
    ORDER BY ActivityDate DESC

and on View i am displaying top 5 records and i also have a link of More on clicking of which next 5 records should show,again clicking on that link show next 5 records and so on

I am having confusion on how to write this query ie how to get next 5 records then next 5 and so on

Posted 26-Feb-12 22:51pm

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi

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Rishikesh_Singh 27-Feb-12 5:10am

what do you mean by view? Are you saying you have to display it in grid in UI and you have pagination there.

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi 27-Feb-12 5:31am

no View means MVC view

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Shameel · Answer 1 · 2012-02-26T23:02:00

Solution 1

Use the ROW_NUMBER[^] clause.

Posted 26-Feb-12 23:02pm

Shameel

Shanmugam Rathakrishnan · Answer 2 · 2012-02-26T23:10:00

Solution 2

it may help u...

SELECT * FROM (
SELECT TOP 5 -- actually bottom five of the top fifteen (seek 10)
*
FROM
(
SELECT TOP 15
*
FROM
Table
ORDER BY
Field
)
ORDER BY
Field DESC
)
ORDER BY Field -- fix order

Posted 26-Feb-12 23:10pm

Shanmugam Rathakrishnan