sql select top 10 values from database

Question

I have a table called articles, each article has a rating value. I want to select * from the ten articles with the highest rating.

something along these lines

    $query = "SELECT TOP 10 rating FROM articles ORDER BY rating DESC";

I am confused about the TOP 10 part, I would usualy have SELECT * FROM

Answer 1

Use LIMIT to do this

    $query = "SELECT * FROM articles ORDER BY rating DESC LIMIT 10";

Documentation here