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  • January 6, 2012 at 11:33 am

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    SQL Kiwi (1/6/2012)

    reinpost (1/6/2012)

    Just a trivial remark: right at the start it says

    APPLY is named after the process of applying a set of input rows to a table-valued function.

    Surely you mean to say applying a table-valued function to a set of input rows.

    I think it makes sense either way! 😎

    So do I, but mathematicians and programmers tend to say that functions are applied to things. In fact this new operator was probably named after Lisp's 'apply' , which does the same thing.