Dapper ORM paging and sorting

Question

I am giving the Dapper ORM a try. I am able to query data from a table using the code below:

Dim comments As List(Of Comment)
Using conn = New SqlConnection(ConnectionString)
    conn.Open()
    comments = conn.Query(Of Comment)("SELECT * from comments where userid = @commentid", New With {.userid= 1})
End Using

Return View(comments)

I am interested to learn how to do paging/sorting using Dapper. EF has "skip" and "take" to help with this. I understand that a micro ORM does not have this built in but would like to know the best way to accomplish this.

Answer 1

If you want to do skip and take with Dapper, you do it with T-SQL.

SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT tbl.*, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ID) rownum
FROM comments as tbl
) seq
 WHERE seq.rownum BETWEEN @x AND @y
 AND userid = @commentid
 ORDER BY seq.rownum