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Introduction

For a recent Tsql development project involving text document records, the customer wanted a product that would show the latest and most recent earlier version of specific document text stored in a SQL Server 2014 database. One result set row had to hold all relevant information for each document: both document versions as described above, and relevant metadata. This essentially required fine-grained row pivots. This article will describe the engineering behind the solution, and compare that solution with the SQL Server PIVOT operator.

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