>Is TOP clause ANSI SQL?
Is not standard but according to
this article ANSI SQL:2008 introduced SQL window functions ROW_NUMBER() and RANK().
For what is worth, I tried ROW_NUMBER() syntax on SQL-Server 2008 and Oracle 10g and it worked in both, but it did not work for Sybase 11 nor for MySQL 5.1
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