First paragraph: (when no ORDER BY is specified) "... it returns the first N number of random rows". The word "random" is misleading here. If it were random, I would expect a different set of rows every time I execute the same query with TOP and no ORDER BY. That is not the case.I believe the correct wording would be "... it returns at most N number of rows, and the selection of which rows are returned is unspecified".
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