I know and you're right - too much work to exclude items. Perhaps our first suggestion is going to be just fine.

>>Actually, the LEFT JOIN solution is wrong - I just realised. The LEFT JOIN only works if we need to exclude items, but what if there is nothing to exclude to begin with?
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>Seems like you're excluding - you changed not like to like
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>But whatever - you're selecting twice from dbo.Meetings
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