SQL Server : pagination into Excel - sql-server

Question

I've got a large data set that I need to get into excel to get some pivot tables and analysis going.
I normally am able to do this as the data never reaches the 1 million line mark. I just do a SQL Server data import and specify my SQL statement.
Here is my current SQL
WITH n AS (
Select A1.AccountID, A1.ParentAccountID, A1.Name
FROM Account AS A1
WHERE A1.ParentAccountID = 92
UNION ALL
SELECT A2.AccountID, A2.ParentAccountID, A2.Name
FROM Account AS A2
JOIN n
ON A2.ParentAccountID=n.AccountID
)
select n.*, D.DeviceID, A.*, P.*
FROM n
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Device AS D
ON D.AccountID = n.AccountID
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Audit as A
ON A.AccountID = n.AccountID
RIGHT OUTER JOIN
DeviceAudit As P
ON P.AuditID = A.AuditID
WHERE A.AuditDate > CAST('2013-03-11' AS DATETIME)
ORDER BY n.AccountID ASC, P.DeviceID ASC, A.AuditDate DESC
This right now is returning to me 100% of what I need. 18 million records for the past 30 days. I was hoping there would be a simple way to find the next 100,000 or 500,000 records.
I can use TOP 100000 to get my first chunk, though I do not seem to have an offset available to me.
At present this runs and completes in 20 minutes. This is 1 of many account hierarchies that I have to perform this for. Hopefully this pagination will not be too expensive cpu wise.
I did try exporting to a CSV in hopes of importing it, though that just gives me a 12GB csv file that I do not have time to and break apart.

Answer 1

Yes, you can do paginated subqueries on the row number since SQL 2005. Add a row number to the select clause of your original query:
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY {whatever id}) AS row
Then you can make your old query a subquery and query against the row:
SELECT TOP {results per page} *
FROM ({your previous sql statement})
WHERE row > {page# * results per page}