Question

I know this is a simple question, but I can’t get it to work.

This is my query in my SqlCommand:

SELECT * FROM zipcode  WHERE city LIKE @prefixtext + '%' ;

I only want 10 results, every other answer suggests

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM zipcode  WHERE city LIKE @prefixtext + '%' ;
SELECT * FROM zipcode  WHERE city LIKE @prefixtext + '%'  LIMIT 10 ;

both do not work

Answer 1

I believe these are all correct.

Oracle:

select * from zipcode where city like @prefixtext + '%' and rownum <=10

SQL Server/Sybase:

select top 10 * from zipcode where city like @prefixtext + '%'

DB2/PostgreSQL:

select * from zipcode where city like @prefixtext || '%' fetch first 10 rows only

MySQL:

select * from zipcode where city like @prefixtext + '%' limit 10