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  • May 3, 2013 at 2:57 am

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    a_ud (5/3/2013)

    Thanks, I'm still getting my head around it, I'm going to try it right now.

    I've never used a CROSS APPLY, but I guess this could be translated (done) also using subqueries which don't rely on a CROSS APPLY, right?

    I'm going to try now. Thnx again

    I'd guess that should read CROSS JOIN rather than CROSS APPLY. If you get stuck, post up some sample data (INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...).

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