LIMIT
Explore how the SQL LIMIT clause helps you manage large result sets by restricting the number of rows returned from a query. Learn to combine LIMIT with OFFSET to paginate results and efficiently retrieve subsets of data without overwhelming your output.
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LIMIT Clause
Usually tables in a production environment have thousands or millions of rows and a select query may return several hundred matched rows. This is problematic because outputting thousands of rows on the console or on a network connection can overwhelm the end-user in the former and is impractical in the latter scenario. The LIMIT clause allows us to restrict the number of rows returned from the result of a select query.
Example Syntax
SELECT col1, col2, … coln
FROM table ...