What is difference between cross join and cross join?
Simply so, what is the difference between cross apply and cross join?
The CROSS APPLY operator is semantically similar to INNER JOIN. This is similar to the INNER JOIN operation performed on the Author and Book tables. CROSS APPLY returns only those records from a physical table where there are matching rows in the output of the table valued function.
Likewise, what is a cross join?
In SQL, the CROSS JOIN is used to combine each row of the first table with each row of the second table. It is also known as the Cartesian join since it returns the Cartesian product of the sets of rows from the joined tables.
The CROSS JOIN gets a row from the first table (T1) and then creates a new row for every row in the second table (T2). It then does the same for the next row for in the first table (T1) and so on. In general, if the first table has n rows and the second table has m rows, the cross join will result in n x m rows.