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Understanding APPLY Clause in SQL Server 2005

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by Sachin Dedhia
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The Tradeoff

Although this is a good feature, there is a performance issue associated with this enhancement. If the outer table expression of the APPLY clause returns a huge result set, performance of the query may degrade due to the number of calls to the table-valued function.

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Title: The Apply Clause
Name: Shailesh
Date: 2010-09-16 9:51:08 AM
Comment:
The presentation is better as compared to the MSDN article.

Small and Sweet!

Thanks

Title: APPLY clause
Name: Vivek
Date: 2009-07-08 11:24:18 AM
Comment:
Excellent Explanation..

Title: The APPLY clause
Name: Sachin Dedhia
Date: 2009-05-26 4:14:26 PM
Comment:
Still cannot see why is apply clause any better than join for SQL 2005
Thanks

Title: user
Name: user
Date: 2009-04-24 1:22:09 PM
Comment:
Beautifully explained

Title: "Using APPLY" MSDN article
Name: Michael Freidgeim
Date: 2009-03-02 4:19:54 PM
Comment:
You should add reference to "Using APPLY" MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175156.aspx