AFAIK, SAMPLE operator internally uses reservoir sampling. So it reads entire 
data to randomly generate 10% data. 

Thanks
-- Prasanth

On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Panshul Whisper <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Can somebody please explain me the difference between Limit and Sample
> statements.
> Does it read the entire input file in case of Sample if the value is set to
> 0.1 or it reads randomly only till 10% of the data has been collected.
> 
> Thanking You for any help.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ouch Whisper
> 010101010101

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