Good day y'all!

I need to limit the results of a DBI query. But here's the catch. I'm querying a SQL Server DB which does not use the LIMIT command commonly found in MySQL. Oh, if it could be that easy.

Here's the basic structure:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT DISTINCT country, COUNT(*) FROM contac
+ts WHERE country != '' GROUP BY country ORDER BY 2 DESC"); 
     $sth->execute() or die $sth->errstr; 
     while (my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array()) { 
     print qq($result[0], $result[1]);
}
$sth->finish();

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I get the return of the country and the count. But it returns all rows and I only need the first 10 - in order of descending count value.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I tried to put together a for statement with a count in it but that was a disaster.

TIA

peppiv

In reply to Limit results of a DBI query by peppiv

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