Overview

The SKIP statement allows you to discard a specified number of records from the beginning of the current working table. A non-negative integer must be specified in the SKIP clause.

OFFSET can be used as a synonym to SKIP.

<skip statement> ::= "SKIP" <non-negative integer>

Example Graph

The following examples run against this graph:

To create this graph, run the following query against an empty graph:

INSERT (p1:Paper {_id:'P1', title:'Efficient Graph Search', score:6, author:'Alex'}),
       (p2:Paper {_id:'P2', title:'Optimizing Queries', score:9, author:'Alex'}),
       (p3:Paper {_id:'P3', title:'Path Patterns', score:7, author:'Zack'}),
       (p1)-[:Cites {weight:2}]->(p2),
       (p2)-[:Cites {weight:1}]->(p3)

Skipping N Records

MATCH (n:Paper)
RETURN n.title SKIP 1

Result:

Skipping N Ordered Records

MATCH (n:Paper)
ORDER BY n.score 
SKIP 1
MATCH p = (n)->()
RETURN p

Result: