Couple this with the concept of correlated-subqueries (the process of running a "child" query for each row in the "parent" resultset), and you can get pretty much anything you want with 'simple' SQL.

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One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...