Let's say you have a link server X. 

If you were to get 1 row from X in a table (apples) from a schema (fruit). Assuming that the table has a billion rows. 

```
Select TOP 1 * from openquery(X , 'SELECT * FROM fruit.apples')

```

Does the query still continue within the openquery statement in the background? or does it terminate once you get that result (SELECT TOP 1)?