The T-SQL dialect has known the powerful CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY JOIN syntaxes for ages. The SQL:1999 standard had introduced almost equivalent "lateral derived tables", which are finally supported with PostgreSQL 9.3, or Oracle 12c, which has adopted both the SQL standard LATERAL syntax and the T-SQL vendor-specific CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY syntaxes. … Continue reading Add LATERAL Joins or CROSS APPLY to Your SQL Tool Chain
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Oracle 12c Goodies: { CROSS | OUTER } APPLY
I can't believe my eyes. Has this been openly communicated by Oracle? I haven't seen too many blog posts on that matter. Apart from introducing the awesome SQL Standard OFFSET .. FETCH clause (just like SQL Server 2012), there seems to be now also { CROSS | OUTER } APPLY in Oracle 12c! Check out the … Continue reading Oracle 12c Goodies: { CROSS | OUTER } APPLY