how to select first N rows from a table in T-SQL?

Question

Is there any way to select, for example, first 10 rows of a table in T-SQL (working MSSQL)?
I think I saw something in Oracle defined as rownum meta variable, used in a

Answer 1

Try this.

declare @topval int

set @topval = 5 (customized value)

SELECT TOP(@topval) * from your_database