How to limit number of rows

November 7, 2007

Some useful information which was passed to me by a DBA on how to limit rows in oracle, MSSQL and My-SQL.

To limit rows in Oracle:
SELECT product, description, price
FROM Products
WHERE ROWNUM < 10

To limit rows in MSSQL:
SELECT TOP 10 product, description, price
FROM Products

To limit rows in My-SQL:

SELECT product, description, price
FROM Products
LIMIT 10

Hope that this information should is useful to others also.