>Naomi,
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>"I see that I forgot to group by Serial, but you still should have get results for all serials in your table, since I used left join from Data to something."
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>How about " I see that I forgot to group by Serial, but I'd still expect my query to return all Serials in the table because of the Left Join from Data to something".
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>If you insist on using "got" then you could use "have got" but it's clumsy.
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>Also fwiw I'd consider dropping the last sentence in the quote you provided or at least softening it to a query in which case you could drop the first sentence. JMHO.

How about 'received' or 'returned' instead of gotten?