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 no portable way of doing that on plain SQL, because different SQL Engines use different syntaxes for that.

Use a Database Abstraction Layer, or DBAL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_abstraction_layer

http://jonasbandi.net/wiki/index.php/ORM_Solutions_for_Java