MS SQL Server provides the top syntax that can be used in SQL select queries to limit the records returned from a query. This is especially useful when querying very large tables in cases where the user only cares about a subset of the records. Listed below are examples of how to use the top syntax.
The Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, California was the base of operations used by Charles Manson and his followers during their 1969 murder spree. The Manson Family case can be regarded as a metaphor for the end of innocence of the decade of peace and love.
Charles Manson. Charles Milles Manson (born Charles Milles Maddox, November 12, 1934) is an American criminal and former cult leader who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations over a period of five weeks in the middle of 1969.