SELECT ROWNUM example

Example:

Consider the CUSTOMERS table having the following records:

| ID | NAME     | AGE | ADDRESS   | SALARY   |
+----+----------+-----+-----------+----------+
|  1 | Ramesh   |  32 | Ahmedabad |  2000.00 |
|  2 | Khilan   |  25 | Delhi     |  1500.00 |
|  3 | kaushik  |  23 | Kota      |  2000.00 |
|  4 | Chaitali |  25 | Mumbai    |  6500.00 |
Following is an example on Oracle server, which would fetch top 3 records from CUSTOMERS table:
SQL> SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS
WHERE ROWNUM <= 3;
This would produce the following result:

| ID | NAME    | AGE | ADDRESS   | SALARY  |
+----+---------+-----+-----------+---------+
|  1 | Ramesh  |  32 | Ahmedabad | 2000.00 |
|  2 | Khilan  |  25 | Delhi     | 1500.00 |
|  3 | kaushik |  23 | Kota      | 2000.00 |
Read more: SQL - TOP, LIMIT or ROWNUM Clause

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