ROWNUM equivalent in ABAP

Hi all
Iwant to fetch the records from table like rownum. I want to fetch whole data of fI tables. But I amnot able to select as it is giving time out or memory exception error.So i want to fetch batch wise, means first i will fetch 100000 records then from 100001 to 200000 like this. Can it possible in ABAP.
Or is there any other method to do this?
Thanks

You can Use Upto n Rows addition in Select Statement...
... UP TO n ROWS
Effect
This addition restricts the number of rows in the result set. A data object of the Type i is expected for n. A positive number in n indicates the maximum number of rows in the result set.
See the ABAP Keyword Documentation for SELECT statement for more details....

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4                           val2 sys.dbms_debug_vc2coll
5                          )
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Dear All,
 I want to fetch any 5 records from a table without using internal table.Basically I want an abap equivalent for the 'rownum' keyword in oracle.
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Yours truly,
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