Alternatives to Limit and Offset for Paging in Oracle

Alternatives to LIMIT and OFFSET for paging in Oracle

You will need to use the rownum pseudocolumn to limit results. See here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/06-sep/o56asktom.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2006/06-sep/o56asktom-086197.html

Apply OFFSET and LIMIT in ORACLE for complex Join Queries?

You can use Analytic functions such as ROW_NUMBER() within a subquery for Oracle 11g assuming you need to get the rows ranked between 3rd and 8th in order to capture the OFFSET 3 LIMIT 8 logic within the Oracle DB(indeed those clauses are included for versions 12c+), whenever the result should be grouped by CREATE_DATE and ordered by the ID of the departments :

SELECT q.*
  FROM (SELECT DEPT.ID rowobjid,
               DEPT.CREATOR createdby,
               DEPT.CREATE_DATE createddate,
               DEPT.UPDATED_BY updatedby,
               DEPT.LAST_UPDATE_DATE updateddate,
               DEPT.NAME name,
               DEPT.STATUS status,
               statusT.DESCR statusdesc,
               REL.ROWID_DEPT1 rowidDEPT1,
               REL.ROWID_DEPT2 rowidDEPT2,
               DEPT2.DEPT_FROM_VAL parentcid,
               DEPT2.NAME parentname,
               ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY DEPT.CREATE_DATE ORDER BY DEPT.ID) AS rn
          FROM TEST.DEPT_TABLE DEPT
          LEFT JOIN TEST.STATUS_TABLE statusT
            ON DEPT.STATUS = statusT.STATUS
          LEFT JOIN TEST.C_REL_DEPT rel
            ON DEPT.ID = REL.ROWID_DEPT2
          LEFT JOIN TEST.DEPT_TABLE DEPT2
            ON REL.ROWID_DEPT1 = DEPT2.ID) q
 WHERE rn BETWEEN 3 AND 8;

which returns exactly 6(8-3+1) rows. If you need to include the ties(the equal values for department identities for each creation date), ROW_NUMBER() should be replaced with another window function called DENSE_RANK() as all other parts of the query remains the same. At least 6 records would return in this case.

How do I limit the number of rows returned by an Oracle query after ordering?

You can use a subquery for this like

select *
from  
( select * 
  from emp 
  order by sal desc ) 
where ROWNUM <= 5;

Have also a look at the topic On ROWNUM and limiting results at Oracle/AskTom for more information.

Update:
To limit the result with both lower and upper bounds things get a bit more bloated with

select * from 
( select a.*, ROWNUM rnum from 
  ( <your_query_goes_here, with order by> ) a 
  where ROWNUM <= :MAX_ROW_TO_FETCH )
where rnum  >= :MIN_ROW_TO_FETCH;

(Copied from specified AskTom-article)

Update 2:
Starting with Oracle 12c (12.1) there is a syntax available to limit rows or start at offsets.

SELECT * 
FROM   sometable
ORDER BY name
OFFSET 20 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY;

See this answer for more examples. Thanks to Krumia for the hint.

How to add offset in a select query in Oracle 11g?

You can do it easily on 12c by specifying OFFSET.

In 12c,

SELECT val
FROM   table
ORDER BY val
OFFSET 4 ROWS FETCH NEXT 4 ROWS ONLY;

To do the same on 11g and prior, you need to use ROWNUM twice, inner query and outer query respectively.

The same query in 11g,

SELECT val
FROM   (SELECT val, rownum AS rnum
        FROM   (SELECT val
                FROM   table
                ORDER BY val)
        WHERE rownum <= 8)
WHERE  rnum > 4;

Here OFFSET is 4.

Oracle 11g: LIMIT OFFSET on GROUPED data

This is the widely known question and probably a lot of answered duplicates exist, but anyway in your case this query should work:

select * from (

    select rownum offset, rs.* from (

       SELECT MAX(t.category) as category, 
              COUNT(t.category) as count 
         FROM tb_test_1 t 
        GROUP BY t.category
        /* add order by clause here if needed */

   ) rs

) where rownum <= 10 /* limit */
    and offset >= 0 /* offset */

Best practice for pagination in Oracle?

If you're already using analytics (ROW_NUMBER() OVER ...) then adding another analytic function on the same partitioning will add a negligible cost to the query.

On the other hand, there are many other ways to do pagination, one of them using rownum:

SELECT * 
  FROM (SELECT A.*, rownum rn
          FROM (SELECT *
                  FROM your_table
                 ORDER BY col) A
         WHERE rownum <= :Y)
 WHERE rn >= :X

This method will be superior if you have an appropriate index on the ordering column. In this case, it might be more efficient to use two queries (one for the total number of rows, one for the result).

Both methods are appropriate but in general if you want both the number of rows and a pagination set then using analytics is more efficient because you only query the rows once.

Query with offset returns overlapping data sets

In Oracle, if you make "order by" to a column containing same values (like you have - 'A', 'A', 'A' ...) the order of records inside 'A' values will be random.

Please try to change your queries to ... order by "APPROVER", rowid ...

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