Select Records From Two Tables, Plus Page And Order Them?

Hi,

I'm trying to look for an efficient way to select records from two tables, combine them (not just one set above the other) and also efficiently page the results as well as dynamically order by specific columns. So far I have this....

DECLARE @Temp TABLE
(
IDINTNOT NULL,
NameNVARCHAR(128)NOT NULL,
TypeCHAR(1)NOT NULL
)

INSERT INTO @Temp
SELECT i.ID, i.Name, Type = 'I' FROM Item i
UNION
SELECT p.ID, p.Name, Type = 'P'FROM Package p

SELECT * FROM @Temp
ORDER BY Name ASC

I was going to then implement some sort of of ROW_NUMBER like paging and ordering on the @Temp table variable. Problem is there could be potentially 1000's or more Items and Packages and they would all go in this single Temp table before having records 1 to 10 returned. Is there a more efficient way of doing this before I proceed any further?

Many thanks for any help! :)