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  • November 12, 2012 at 10:53 pm

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    Thanks Jeff I'll give it a try tomorrow, I'm not very familiar with cross apply very much. 🙂

    Cross Apply is fairly easy. It's just a correlated subquery that's very similar to the sub-query you might do in a SELECT list except that it can return more than one value. There's also an OUTER Apply that works like a correlated subquery with a left outer join.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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