Comments on: String parsing https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2025/10/21/string-parsing/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rob Farley https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2025/10/21/string-parsing/#comment-23023 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:43:07 +0000 https://lobsterpot.com.au/?p=6304#comment-23023 In reply to Thomas Franz.

Yes – without a FROM or WHERE, a scalar subquery can be CROSS APPLY instead of OUTER APPLY. But I mention OUTER because sometimes (just not in this example) I might have a table of numbers involved, and maybe have zero rows in some cases.

]]> By: Thomas Franz https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2025/10/21/string-parsing/#comment-20055 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:36:09 +0000 https://lobsterpot.com.au/?p=6304#comment-20055 in your example you could have used CROSS APPLY (similar to INNER JOIN) instead of OUTER APPLY (= LEFT JOIN), since the simple calculations done, will always produce a single return line

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