How to get items from a list that has more items than the List View Threshold?

Question

I'm using SharePoints object model and I'm trying to get all or a subset of the items from a SharePoint 2010 list which has many more items than the list view threshold (20,000+) using the SPList.GetItems() method. However no matter what I do the SPQueryThrottledException
always seems to be thrown and I get no items back.
I'm sorting based on the ID field, so it is indexed. I've tried setting the RowLimit property on the SPQuery object(had no effect). I tried specifying the RowLimit in the SPQuerys ViewXml property, but that still throws a throttle exception. I tried using the
ContentIterator as defined here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.utilities.contentiterator.aspx,
but that still throws the query throttle exception. I tried specifying the RowLimit parameter in the ProcessListItems functions, as suggested by the first comment here:http://tomvangaever.be/blogv2/2011/05/contentiterator-very-large-lists/,
but it still throws the query throttle exception. I tried using GetDataTable instead, still throws query throttle exception. I can't run this as admin, I can't raise the threshold limit, I can't raise the threshold limit temporarily, I can't override the lists
throttling(i.e. list.EnableThrottling = false;), and I can't override the SPQuery(query.QueryThrottleMode = SPQueryThrottleOption.Override;). Does anyone know how to get items back in this situation or has anyone succesfully beaten the query throttle exception?
Thanks.
My Query:
<OrderBy>
    <FieldRef Name='ID' Ascending='TRUE' />
</OrderBy>
<Where>
    <Geq><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>0</Value></Geq>
</Where>
My ViewXml:
<View>
    <Query>
        <OrderBy><FieldRef Name='ID' Ascending='TRUE' /></OrderBy>
        <Where>
            <Geq><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>0</Value></Geq>
        </Where>
    </Query>
    <RowLimit>2000</RowLimit>
</View>
Thanks again.

Answer 1

I was using code below to work with 700000+ items in the list.
SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Web;
SPList oList = oWebsite.Lists["MyList"];
SPQuery oQuery = new SPQuery();
oQuery.RowLimit = 2000;
int intIndex = 1;
do
SPListItemCollection collListItems = oList.GetItems(oQuery);
foreach (SPListItem oListItem in collListItems)
//do something oListItem["Title"].ToString()
oQuery.ListItemCollectionPosition = collListItems.ListItemCollectionPosition;
intIndex++;
} while (oQuery.ListItemCollectionPosition != null);
Oleg
Hi Oleg, thanks for replying.
The problem with the code you have is that your SPQuery object's QueryThrottleMode is set to default. If you run that code as a local admin no throttle limits will be applied, but if you're not admin you will still have the normal throttle limits. In my
situation it won't be run as a local admin so the code you provided won't work. You can simulate my dilemma by setting the QuerryThrottleMode  property to SPQueryThrottleOption.Strict, and I'm sure you'll start to get SPQueryThrottledException's
as well on that list of 700000+ items.
Thanks anyway though