How to stop looking in a database after X rows are found?

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Published on 2010-03-31T02:41:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 2:53 UTC
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I have a query to a database that returns a number X of results. I am looking to return a maximum of 10 results. Is there a way to do this without using LIMIT 0,9? I'll use LIMIT if I have to, but I'd rather use something else that will literally stop the searching, rather than look at all rows and then only return the top 10.

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