RE: how top clause works – SQLServerCentral

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January 15, 2013 at 1:24 am

sej2008 (1/15/2013)
I found that TOP clause works little randomly with
Select TOP 50 percent * from Tablename as it is not giving exact 50 percent in my result set .how it gets the data reading from data pages.I have Idea that it is little random in working in respect to percent clause over datapages.

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