only the first 10 rows

Hello all.
I've a SQL problem.
I have a table with abaut 20000 rows.
But I want to get only the first 10 rows from this table (Top 10). How could I solved this problem ?
(select * from tablename ....?)

Amir

        Amir Zawar, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
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