RE: How to join a table-valued Function

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September 1, 2011 at 7:25 am

lalit.madan (7/19/2011)
/*this behaves like inner join*/
select * from freight_manager
cross apply LargeOrderShippers ( freight_manager.min_value, freight_manager.max_value)
/*this behaves like cross join*/
select * from freight_manager
outer apply LargeOrderShippers ( freight_manager.min_value, freight_manager.max_value)
🙂

I think you will find OUTER APPLY behaves more like LEFT (OUTER) JOIN.

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