[sqlalchemy] Re: Is there any way do select top 100 results from a query in SQLAlchemy?

2018-04-18 Thread su-sa
On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:59:25 UTC+2, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 5:58:32 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: >> >> >> So .limit() is .top() >> > > Clarified: `limit()` is essentially the same as if there were a `top()`, > because it will emit `TOP` for the qu

[sqlalchemy] Re: Is there any way do select top 100 results from a query in SQLAlchemy?

2018-04-17 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 5:58:32 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > > > So .limit() is .top() > Clarified: `limit()` is essentially the same as if there were a `top()`, because it will emit `TOP` for the query. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http:/

[sqlalchemy] Re: Is there any way do select top 100 results from a query in SQLAlchemy?

2018-04-17 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
SqlAlchemy doesn't natively support `TOP` because it's not part of standard sql. IIRC, only mssql uses it -- and uses it instead of 'limit'. The SqlAlchemy dialect for mssql will adapt .limit() to emit `TOP` instead of `LIMIT`. http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/mssql.html#limit-off

[sqlalchemy] Re: Is there any way do select top 100 results from a query in SQLAlchemy?

2018-04-17 Thread su-sa
On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:17:27 UTC+2, su-sa wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I am trying to build the following query with SQLAlchemy: > > "select top 100 s_acctbal, s_name, n_name, p_partkey, p_mfgr, s_address, > s_phone, s_comment from system.part, " > "system.supplier, system.partsupp,