When I am teaching a class I always emphasize the importance of SQL Server Books Online. This Help system is, in my opinion, the best in the business. The proof is that even the experts use it on a ...

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I want to design a query to compute some returns for stock data and in searching the 'SQL Server Books Online' I find a very small and not so helpful at all help section on the lead and lag functions.