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FROM table_name
WHERE condition
LIMIT number;

Examples

Consider the following table about some students:

student_id	fname	lname	day_enrolled	age	username
1	Sky	Towner	2015-12-03	17	stowner1
2	Ben	Davis	2016-04-20	19	bdavis2
3	Travis	Apple	2018-08-14	18	tapple3
4	Arthur	David	2016-04-01	16	adavid4
5	Benjamin	Town	2014-01-01	17	btown5

The above sample table can be created using the code here.

Basic usage

To limit the number of returned results to 2:


        
        
            
                
                
                    SELECT * FROM students LIMIT 2;
                
            
            +------------+-------+--------+--------------+------+----------+
| student_id | fname | lname  | day_enrolled | age  | username |
+------------+-------+--------+--------------+------+----------+
|          1 | Sky   | Towner | 2015-12-03   |   17 | stowner1 |
|          2 | Ben   | Davis  | 2016-04-20   |   19 | bdavis2  |
+------------+-------+--------+--------------+------+----------+

Note that we only return 2 records despite the fact the table has 5 students.

To use LIMIT together with WHERE clause:


        
        
            
                
                
                    SELECT * 
FROM students 
WHERE day_enrolled > '2016-01-01'
LIMIT 2;
                
            
            +------------+--------+-------+--------------+------+----------+
| student_id | fname  | lname | day_enrolled | age  | username |
+------------+--------+-------+--------------+------+----------+
|          2 | Ben    | Davis | 2016-04-20   |   19 | bdavis2  |
|          3 | Travis | Apple | 2018-08-14   |   18 | tapple3  |
+------------+--------+-------+--------------+------+----------+