ANSI/ISO plans for LIMIT standardization?
The latest draft SQL standard that I could find on the internet (dated 21/12/2011) has the following available for use in a query expression:

&lt;result offset clause&gt; ::=
    OFFSET &lt;offset row count&gt; { ROW | ROWS }

&lt;fetch first clause&gt; ::=
    FETCH { FIRST | NEXT } [ &lt;fetch first quantity&gt; ] { ROW | ROWS } { ONLY | WITH TIES }