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>>It'd be nice if SELECT FIRST 10 would be supported as well as SELECT LAST 10.
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>Isn't SELECT TOP 10 the same as SELECT FIRST 10 ?

Yes, I was mostly making reference to the SQL Server syntax.

I had the assumption that the SQL syntax, supported on SQL Server, was grabbing the first records which were meeting the condition without having to select from the entire table first.