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 | <h1>LIMIT<a class="headerlink" href="#limit" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> | 
 | <p>LIMIT constrains the number of records in the output.</p> | 
 | <div class="section" id="introduction"> | 
 | <h2>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> | 
 | <p>LIMIT accepts any expression that evaluates to a positive integer.</p> | 
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 | <h2>Return a subset of the rows<a class="headerlink" href="#return-a-subset-of-the-rows" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> | 
 | <p>To return a subset of the result, starting from the top, use this syntax:</p> | 
 | <p>Query</p> | 
 | <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>SELECT *  | 
 | FROM cypher('graph_name', $$ | 
 | 	MATCH (n)RETURN n.name | 
 | 	ORDER BY n.name | 
 | 	LIMIT 3 | 
 | $$) as (names agtype); | 
 | </pre></div> | 
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 | <p>The node is returned, and no property age exists on it.</p> | 
 | <p>Result</p> | 
 | <table> | 
 |   <thead> | 
 |    <td><strong>names</strong> | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   <thead> | 
 |   <tr> | 
 |    <td>"A" | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   </tr> | 
 |   <tr> | 
 |    <td>"B" | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   </tr> | 
 |   <tr> | 
 |    <td>"C" | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   </tr> | 
 |   <tr> | 
 |    <td>3 rows | 
 |    </td> | 
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 | <h2>Using an expression with LIMIT to return a subset of the rows<a class="headerlink" href="#using-an-expression-with-limit-to-return-a-subset-of-the-rows" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> | 
 | <p>Limit accepts any expression that evaluates to a positive integer as long as it is not referring to any external variables:</p> | 
 | <p>Query</p> | 
 | <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>SELECT * | 
 | FROM cypher('graph_name', $$ | 
 | 	MATCH (n) | 
 | 	RETURN n.name | 
 | 	ORDER BY n.name | 
 | 	LIMIT toInteger(3 * rand()) + 1 | 
 | $$) as (names agtype); | 
 |  | 
 | </pre></div> | 
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 | <p>Returns one to three top items.</p> | 
 | <p>Result</p> | 
 | <table> | 
 |   <thead> | 
 |    <td><strong>names</strong> | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   <thead> | 
 |   <tr> | 
 |    <td>"A" | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   </tr> | 
 |   <tr> | 
 |    <td>"B" | 
 |    </td> | 
 |   </tr> | 
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