Steve
Sorry - would have quoted but the forum was insistent on quoting another post when I clicked quote 😀
I would put money on the fact that when you used SET ROWCOUNT one of the two following possibilities was true:
1) There was no where clause on the statement
2) The where clause was easily satisfied by an index
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