Return top n records in SQL Server

To return top few records from the database, we use TOP keyword.

SELECT TOP(2) FirstName, LastName, Age FROM PersonalDetails

Above query will return Top 2 records (only FirstName, LastName, Age columns data) from PersonalDetails table.

SELECT TOP(2) * FROM PersonalDetails

Above query would return Top 2 records (all columns) from PersonalDetails table.

We can also pass number of records to return as parameter.

DECLARE @top int
SET @top = 5
SELECT TOP (@top) * FROM PersonalDetails

Above statements would return top 5 records from PersonalDetails table.

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