Database Management White Papers
TOP Keyword in SQL Server Yukon
Overview TOP keyword is a one of those keywords that has been added by Microsoft to the ANSI SQL. Often developers who are used to T-SQL and are in the process of adapting themselves to PL-SQL find this key word suddenly missing. The TOP keyword is often used to reduce the size of the result set returned by a SQL query. Hence the TOP keyword is the keyword that is applied the last in the sequence of operations performed by the SQL engine. This paper provides some information about the enhancements made to the TOP KEYWORD in T-SQL language in the latest release of SQL Server called Yukon beta 1.
| Publisher | C# Corner | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | January 2004 | Downloads | 1 |
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