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From: hemphill@csc000.csc.ti.com (Charles Hemphill)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Simple SQL question
Keywords: SQL
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Date: 18 Nov 89 05:37:11 GMT
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Can the following type of question be answered with an SQL expression?

	List the 10 oldest employees.

Basically, I'd like the top N tuples from an ordered table.  I don't
want to use embedded SQL.