The top operator used to select top row from a table
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select top 1 * from tablename
select top(2) * from TransPalanharPayment
select top(10) PERCENT * from tablename
The TOP operator is used to select the top records. Means If You want to select first 2 records, then You use the following query
select top 2 * from employee
employee is the table name.
The TOP operator is used to specify the number of rows to be returned by a query.
The TOP operator has new addition in SQL SERVER 2008 that it accepts variables as well as literal values and
can be used with NSERT, UPDATE, and DELETES statements.