The APPLY Operator
The APPLY
relational operator allows you to invoke a table-valued function once per each row of an outer table expression. You specify APPLY
in the FROM
clause of a query, similarly to the way you use the JOIN
operator. APPLY
can take two forms: CROSS APPLY
and OUTER APPLY
.
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