sampling

sampling


s-dump Index Level select
Syntax sampling sample.number
Category Access
Type Modifier
Description limits the number of items processed by the Access sentence to a specific number.

If selection criteria are included within the sentence, processing will continue until the specified number of items are found which match the selection criteria.
Options
See Also modifiers list processor Access verbs
Example select entity sampling 10
[4042] 10 items selected out of 10 sampling items.

select entity with name "[mary]" sampling 10
[4042] 10 items selected out of 1513 sampling items.

In this example, 1513 items had to be sampled to return the 10 items requested.
Warnings This feature changed in (about) release 5.2. In earlier versions, the sampling number represented the first "n" number of items, regardless of selection criteria.
Compatibility D3 7.0 AP
s-dump Index Level select