Daniel Hutmacher crosses the streams:
You can get into a situation where you have two tables with values associated with date ranges. What’s worse, those date ranges don’t necessarily have to align, which can make joining them a seemingly complex task, but it is surprisingly simple when you learn how to think of overlapping date ranges, along with this relatively simple T-SQL join pattern.
This problem gets even more challenging if you have the possibility of multiple overlaps and you want to find the combination with the biggest overlap for each individual item.