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SELECT TOP N in Oracle

Being used to SQL Server, I get messed up when moving to Oracle. For reference, here are equivalent top N queries in both environments:

SQL Server:
[source:sql]
SELECT TOP 10 book_name, price*sales
FROM tblBooks;
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Oracle:
[source:sql]
SELECT book_name, price*sales
FROM tblBooks
WHERE ROWNUM <= 10; [/source]

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