SQL - Select first 10 rows only?

Question

How do I select only the first 10 results of a query?

I would like to display only the first 10 results from the following query:

SELECT a.names,
            


        

Answer 1

Depends on your RDBMS

MS SQL Server

SELECT TOP 10 ...

MySQL

SELECT ... LIMIT 10

Sybase

SET ROWCOUNT 10
SELECT ...

Etc.