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Paging became quite simpler & easy to script and manage by using OFFSET & FETCH NEXT keywords in SQL Server 2012 & above. I have written quite a detailed article earlier about it and implemented it in my most of the solutions wherever required. However, when you implement/use paging in your script, you face a big challenge, that is, to find the total number of records in that particular result-set.

Given below are the three methods which you can use to get the total row count from OFFSET / FETCH NEXT.
Before proceeding with the solutions, let me create a sample.

Sample :

USE AdventureWorks2014
GO
-- Create Sample Table Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail](
[SalesOrderID] [int] NOT NULL,
[SalesOrderDetailID] [int] NOT NULL,
[CarrierTrackingNumber] [nvarchar](25) NULL,
[OrderQty] [smallint] NOT NULL,
[ProductID] [int] NOT NULL,
[SpecialOfferID] [int] NOT NULL,
[UnitPrice] [money] NOT NULL,
[UnitPriceDiscount] [money] NOT NULL,
[LineTotal] [numeric](38, 6) NOT NULL,
[rowguid] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[ModifiedDate] [datetime] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

-- Insert bulk data into sample table
-- It may take few minutes depends upon the server performance
INSERT INTO [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail]
SELECT * FROM [SALES].[SalesOrderDetail]
GO 100

-- Verfiy the data
Select * from [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail]
GO

Method 1 : Using COUNT(*) OVER()

USE AdventureWorks2014
GO
DECLARE
@PageSize INT = 10,
@PageNum  INT = 1;

SELECT
[SalesOrderID]
, [SalesOrderDetailID]
, [CarrierTrackingNumber]
, [OrderQty]
, [ProductID]
, [SpecialOfferID]
, [TotalCount]= COUNT(*) OVER()
FROM [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail]
ORDER BY SalesOrderID
OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY;
GO
--OUTPUT

Method 2 : Using Common Table Expression

USE AdventureWorks2014
GO
DECLARE
@PageSize INT = 10,
@PageNum  INT = 1;

;WITH Main_CTE AS(
SELECT [SalesOrderID]
, [SalesOrderDetailID]
, [CarrierTrackingNumber]
, [OrderQty]
, [ProductID]
, [SpecialOfferID]
FROM [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail]
)
, Count_CTE AS (
SELECT COUNT(*) AS [TotalCount]
FROM Main_CTE
)
SELECT *
FROM Main_CTE, Count_CTE
ORDER BY Main_CTE.SalesOrderID
OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY
GO
--OUTPUT

Method 3 : Using Cross Apply

USE AdventureWorks2014
GO
DECLARE @PageSize INT = 10,
@PageNum  INT = 1;

SELECT
[SalesOrderID]
, [SalesOrderDetailID]
, [CarrierTrackingNumber]
, [OrderQty]
, [ProductID]
, [SpecialOfferID]
, [TotalCount]
FROM [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail]

CROSS APPLY (SELECT COUNT(*) TotalCount
FROM [dbo].[SalesOrderDetail] ) [Count]
ORDER BY SalesOrderID
OFFSET (@PageNum-1)*@PageSize ROWS
FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY
GO
--OUTPUT

All of the above methods give you the same result-sets. Lets view their performance given below.

Conclusion :
On the basis of above results, I would recommend that you either use Common Table Expression or Cross Apply to get the faster results.

Note : The above queries have been tested on ~12 Million records.

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