Boost your T-SQL with the APPLY Operator Itzik Ben-Gan | T-SQL Trainer and Co-founder, SolidQ Umachandar Jayachandran (UC) | Program Manager, Microsoft

Meet Itzik Ben-Gan | ‏@ItzikBenGan T-SQL Trainer and Co-founder, SolidQ Delivering T-SQL training around the world (http://tsql.solidq.com/courses.htm) Author of many T-SQL books Columnist, SQL Server Pro Magazine Regular speaker at events like SQL PASS and Dev Connections Over two decades of experience with SQL and databases

Meet Umachandar Jayachandran (UC) Program Manager, Microsoft SQL Server Product Group Worked on SQL Server since 2008 release Currently working on Windows Azure SQL Database Have worked with databases (Sybase, Oracle & SQL Server) since 1998 Microsoft representative for ANSI SQL standards group

Course Topics Boost your T-SQL with the APPLY Operator 01 | APPLY, Described 02 | APPLY Boosts various T-SQL Features

Setting Expectations Target Audience T-SQL practitioners with at least half a year of experience Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (MSPress, 2012) Source code: http://tsql.solidq.com/books/source_code/APPLY.txt Few leading slides – mostly T-SQL coding demos!

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01 | APPLY, Described Itzik Ben-Gan | T-SQL Trainer and Co-founder, SolidQ Umachandar Jayachandran (UC) | Program Manager, Microsoft

Module Overview Joins vs. APPLY CROSS APPLY OUTER APPLY Implicit APPLY

Joins vs. APPLY Cross Join Inner Join APPLY (2005+) Both input sets predefined (pre-operator treatment), Result: all combinations Inner Join Both input sets predefined, Result: only matching combinations APPLY (2005+) Left input set predefined, Right set evaluated per left row using correlations Result: unified results of evaluations X All Combinations X + ? Matching Combinations 1 2 Unified Results

CROSS APPLY Apply right set per left row using correlations Left rows discarded if right side is empty SELECT C.custid, C.companyname, O.orderid, O.orderdate, O.empid FROM Sales.Customers AS C CROSS APPLY dbo.GetTopOrders(C.custid, 3) AS O;

OUTER APPLY Apply right set per left row using correlations Left rows preserved when right side is empty NULLs used as placeholders SELECT C.custid, C.companyname, O.orderid, O.orderdate, O.empid FROM Sales.Customers AS C OUTER APPLY dbo.GetTopOrders(C.custid, 3) AS O;

Implicit APPLY Refer to a table UDF in subquery Pass columns from outer table as inputs (correlations) SELECT C.custid, C.companyname, (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT empid) FROM dbo.GetTopOrders(C.custid, 3) AS O) AS numemps FROM Sales.Customers AS C;