How can I do paging in Sybase without making temp table? (oracle rownum issue)

Question

In Oracle, usually query like this for paging.

SELECT * FROM (SELECT *, rownum rid  FROM TABLEA WHERE rownum <= #pageend#)
WHERE rid > #pagestart#

However, there is no "rownum" function in Sybase DBMS.

How can I do that query exactlly same in Sybase?

I found some ways.

1. use "rowcount"

   set rowcount 10

   select * from TABLEA

2. use identity (make temp table)

   SELECT *, ROWNUM=IDENTITY(8) INTO #TEMP FROM TABLEA

   SELECT * FROM #TEMP WHERE ROWNUM < #pageend# AND ROWNUM >= #pagestart#

   DROP TABLE #TEMP

these are not what I want.

rowcount is set at the session level and i don't want make temp table.

Answer 1

If you have a unique id column on your table you could use SELECT TOP n

SELECT TOP 10 *
FROM tableA
WHERE id BETWEEN @start AND @end