Is there a portable way to have “SELECT FIRST 10 * FROM T” semantic?

Question

I want to read data in blocks of say 10k records from a database.

I found Result limits on wikipedia and it seems obvious that this can\'t done with sql in a portabl

Answer 1

There is an ANSI standard syntax from SQL:2008:

SELECT t.* 
  FROM TABLE t
 FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY

...but it's not supported on most databases at this time.