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		jcromartie on Nov 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "I've isolated the bug to a database query" People in that thread are bragging about their 10-page queries with 20 joins or 8 unions. I'm looking at a query here that is 37 printed pages, with 92 joins over 25 unions.

einhverfr on Nov 10, 2011 | [–]

I think at this point I am bragging that I have never written one. Ok, I have used views of views, but.......

I have, however, had the misfortune of troubleshooting those 10 page queries. Finding a stupid typo in one of those is like looking for a needle in a haystack.....

ceejayoz on Nov 9, 2011 | [–]

And thus Skynet was born.

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