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A Plunge Into TOP

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Introduction TOP is one of the many syntactical operators available in T-SQL and at a first view, it could seem very simple and not particularly interesting. According to the official documentation, it “limits the rows returned in a query result set to a specified number of rows or percentage of rows”. The following is the […]

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Selecting Data Using the TOP Clause

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There are times when you don’t what to return a complete set of records. When you have this kind of requirement to only select the TOP X number of items Transact SQL (TSQL) has the TOP clause to meet your needs. In this article Greg Larsen explores how to select a subset of data from a record set.

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Converting Money

Does this run successfully on a SQL Server 2022, US English default installation?

DECLARE @YenAmount MONEY;
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SELECT @YenAmount AS RawValue;

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