This topic provides advanced information about how queries process lots that they receive on their input streams. The information here requires a thorough understanding of streams, queries, and the information about lots presented so far.

To understand how stream queries behave when receiving lots that contain more than one item, consider the window content of the query before the lot is input and the window content of the query after the lot is input. The difference between these two states determines the output of the query. For example, consider the following queries:

The following diagram shows the lot output by each stream on each activation of the query.

As can be seen, in the queries that contain aggregate functions, the aggregate expressions (and projections) are evaluated, at most, once per query activation. All queries, with the exception of those containing a group by clause, behave in this way.