No, SQL top doesn’t look at the status of a database the way the TOP command in bash does. It looks at the top number of records returned in a query, so a bit more like head. This makes SELECT TOP useful with larger tables where this will be millions of records getting loaded into memory during a query. In this article, we’ll use the same “Customers” table from our first articles to test out TOP: ID Site Contact Address City Zip Country 1 Krypted Charles Edge my house Minneapolis 55418 US 2 Apple Tim Cook spaceship Cupertino 95014 US 3 Microsoft Satya Nadella campus Redmond 98053 US 4 Facebook…