How universal is the LIMIT statement in SQL?

Question

I\'m in the process of generalizing a Django DB replication app and it uses the statement:

SELECT %s FROM %s LIMIT 1

to fetch 1 row and use

Answer 1

LIMIT is very far from universal - out of major RDBMS, it's pretty much restricted to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Here is a detailed analysis of how this is done in many other implementations, including MSSQL, Oracle and DB2, as well as in ANSI SQL.