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Paging in Advantage Database


i'm creating a web app that's running on an Advantage Database server, not my personal weapon of choice but that's what the company uses. I have a couple of big lists that the end-users need to be able to view however i can't seem to find a way to page through the results in SQL.

Is there something like LIMIT / OFFSET for Advantage Database? If no, any suggestions on approaching this?

thank you in advance!


Solution

  • I understand that LIMIT and a ROWNUM will be new features in an upcoming version of Advantage. http://feedback.advantagedatabase.com/forums/2671-general/suggestions/30213-return-query-specific-row-number-?ref=title

    However, until then, I have used this in the past to select row 50-60.

    select top 10 * from mytable where rowid not in (select top 50 rowid from mytable)

    @tommieb75, you indicated that the SQL dialect was not standard. I have found that it is based on the standards containing most of the SQL-92 standard and some of the SQL-2003 features.