Extracting The Specified Record No Of Records From Database Table

hi all,

I need to select the no of records on the basis of specified range of records.

In oracle i found rownum, i could not find it in sqlserver. how the data are extracted from the huge records..

I have used temporary table,map the table primary key to the next table with identity

but i dont find it good. I need to ignore the insert the data in next table or craeting new table having the rowid ...

Is there some other best way to extract the specified data

here is the type of query.

select * from customers where rownum between 1000 and 10000

this is in oracle

i am in need to do this in the sql server

waiting for the response...............................