Cut the result at two

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LIMIT N restricts the result to at most N rows. Without ORDER BY, the database may return any N rows - in practice most engines return the first N in storage order. Here the result is Alice and Bob. Always pair LIMIT with ORDER BY when you need a predictable subset.

id	name	salary
1	Alice	90000
2	Bob	75000
3	Carol	82000