How to limit the number of rows in dataset

Question

Code to refer

 [WebMethod]

 public static string GetData()
 {
      string query = "SELECT * FROM tblCountry";
      SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query);
      return GetData(cmd).GetXml();
 }
 private static DataSet GetData(SqlCommand cmd)
 {
      string strConnString = @"Data Source=.\sqlExpress;Initial Catalog=dbTest;Integrated  Security=SSPI; pooling=false";
      using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConnString))
      {
          using (SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter())
          {
             cmd.Connection = con;
             sda.SelectCommand = cmd;
             using (DataSet ds = new DataSet())
             {
                sda.Fill(ds);
                return ds;
             }
          }
      }
 } 

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The query returns 20 rows and i need to show ten rows alone. Without any alteration in query is there any possibility to limit the data in dataset.Suggest some ideas

Answer 1

You can use an overload of Fill that takes the start and end record index.

var ds = new DataSet; //using means the DataSet will go out of scope so you can't return it!
sda.Fill(1, 10, ds.Tables.Add("MyTable"));
return ds; //it now contains a table called "MyTable".

You can find more details here

But like most commenters here, I'd be much more in favour of modifying the query if at all possible

Answer 2

You can try this

var rows = ds.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().Take(10);

Now you can also convert these rows into a datatable like this

DataTable limitedTable = rows.CopyToDataTable<DataRow>();

Answer 3

How strict is your requirement to not alter the query? Can you prepend some text to the query?

If so, you can use SET ROWCOUNT.

Example:

string query = "SET ROWCOUNT 10;"
query += "SELECT * FROM tblCountry";

Answer 4

string query = "SELECT TOP 10 FROM tblCountry";

You can make a query like this, to return only 10 rows.