RE: How to Compare Rows within Partitioned Sets to Find Overlapping Dates

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October 11, 2010 at 5:54 am

ta.bu.shi.da.yu (10/11/2010)
If I read this correctly, you just implemented the LAG(...) Over(...) analytic function.
However, I'm interested... if you do this on a large dataset, what does the execution plan look like?

Got a BOL clicky-link for this, by any chance? 😉

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