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luke nukem
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Posted - 07/30/2007 :  09:06:53  Show Profile  Visit luke nukem's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I know I can use "First" to specify a number of rows to return from a query but is it possible for the number of rows returned to be based on a parameter, something like this:

SELECT FIRST @someNumber name, age
FROM friends
WHERE age > @ageInput

SwePeso
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Posted - 07/30/2007 :  09:11:38  Show Profile  Visit SwePeso's Homepage  Reply with Quote
SELECT TOP (@SomeNumber) Name, Age
FROM Friends
WHERE Age >= @AgeInput


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madhivanan
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Posted - 07/30/2007 :  10:13:48  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Also using ORDER BY clause will make it more sense

Madhivanan

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madhivanan
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Posted - 07/30/2007 :  10:15:32  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
If you use SQL Server 2000 then use

SET ROWCOUNT @SomeNumber
query
SET ROWCOUNT 0


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