SQL SELECT TOP, LIMIT, ROWNUM

The LIMIT, SELECT TOP or ROWNUM command is used to specify the number of records to return

SELECT TOP, LIMIT and ROWNUM

The LIMIT, SELECT TOP or ROWNUM command is used to specify the number of records to return.

Note: SQL Server uses SELECT TOP. MySQL uses LIMIT, and Oracle uses ROWNUM.

The following SQL statement selects the first three records from the "Customers" table (SQL SERVER):

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM Customers;

The following SQL statement shows the equivalent example using the LIMIT clause (MySQL):

SELECT * FROM Customers
LIMIT 3;

The following SQL statement shows the equivalent example using ROWNUM (Oracle):

SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE ROWNUM <= 3;

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