Answer by 3rdRockSoftware for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?

I'm a bit late to the party here but I have done this without the need for windowing or using

WHERE x IN (...)

SELECT TOP 1--select the value needed from t1[col2]FROM(   SELECT TOP 2 --the Nth row, alter this to taste   UE2.[col1],   UE2.[col2],   UE2.[date],   UE2.[time],   UE2.[UID]   FROM   [table1] AS UE2   WHERE   UE2.[col1] = ID --this is a subquery    AND   UE2.[col2] IS NOT NULL   ORDER BY   UE2.[date] DESC, UE2.[time] DESC --sorting by date and time newest first) AS t1ORDER BY t1.[date] ASC, t1.[time] ASC --this reverses the order of the sort in t1

It seems to work fairly fast although to be fair I only have around 500 rows of data

This works in MSSQL