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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