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JOIN Instead of Repeating a Subquery

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2 Feb 2011CPOL 18.6K   10  
Rather than use multiple subqueries to extract TOP 1 data, this shows you how to use a single TOP 1 JOIN.

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6 Feb 2011Goutam Patra
As an alternate, I would like to share the following query using the previous table definition using RANK:DECLARE @FirstTable table(FirstName varchar(20))DECLARE @SecondTable table (ID int, FirstName varchar(20), LastName varchar(20), FirstNameHashCode varchar(20), ...

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