David Steuber  <david@david-steuber.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > [LIMIT 10] would get you just the 10 latest values, no matter
| > how many rows in the table matched.
| 
| Oracle also supports LIMIT.  The DB itself may internaly still go
| through the entire table to do the sort even though it only returns
| up to LIMIT results.
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Possibly, though after a number of runs perhaps the query optimizer
might be able to do something better. At least you'd be *telling* it
in a declarative way what you really want, whether or not a particular
query optimizer contains the mythical "sufficiently-smart compiler"
to make use of the information...


-Rob

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