How to get N rows starting from row M from sorted table in T-SQL

UPDATE If you you are using SQL 2012 new syntax was added to make this really easy. See Implement paging (skip / take) functionality with this query

I guess the most elegant is to use the ROW_NUMBER function (available from MS SQL Server 2005):

WITH NumberedMyTable AS
(
    SELECT
        Id,
        Value,
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Id) AS RowNumber
    FROM
        MyTable
)
SELECT
    Id,
    Value
FROM
    NumberedMyTable
WHERE
    RowNumber BETWEEN @From AND @To

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