Fixes the following stack overflow error that occurs when deeply nesting APPLY operations: Msg 8621, Level 17, State 1, Line <LineNumber> The query processor ran out of stack space during query optimization. Please simplify the query. Note This fix allows the nesting depth of the APPLY operator to be equal to or better than the functionality in SQL Server 2017.

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