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>>Rest easy, I decided to leave this thread and UT as well.
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>I hope you are kidding about leaving UT. You have been an invaluable guru and helper here.
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>As far as what Tore said, I disagree. This thread - although it goes a mile over my head - is technical discussion of the gurus. Even though the thread sometimes deviates to some personal comments, I still think it is very informative. And if I ever have time, I will go through each message to understand it.

Same for me, I have learned quite a few things about CTE's in the context of this thread which were new for me. I also thought for some reason that CTS's were specific to SQL Server.