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I guess SQL is so widely used that there are always some niche cases. I guess it is useful if you just want to show one example value where there is no numerical order, and you want fetching this value to be superfast.

Like a movie database, and you want to show an example title for every genre.

But in a real-world scenario, I would want a popular movie, not literally any. If you have an Academy Award winners table, I guess, then everyone is popular.




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