Question

Can someone please enlighten me to a way to filter a subquery that is located in a FROM clause?
I would like it to look something like this:

SELECT *
FROM TABLE_A
LEFT JOIN (TOP 8 TABLE_B) ON TABLE_B.id = TABLE_A.id

Answer 1

Please try this:

SELECT 
column_names 
FROM 
TABLE_A A LEFT JOIN (SELECT TOP 8 column_names FROM TABLE_B) as B
on A.Id=B.ID

Considerations:

Do not use * since it would lead to performance constraints.

IF you are concerned about just the ID then get only the ID from Table_B

HTH