Hi, thank you for the quick answer. According to the Microsoft documentation, the TOP clause must be placed after the DISTINCT one (at least for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database). Using SELECT TOP 3 ...

Do you want to find out how to avoid duplicates in the results of a SQL SELECT query? This article will show you how. Simply use the DISTINCT clause and between the SELECT clause and the fields.

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As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...