• yingchai (6/15/2012)


    Thanks to all the feedback. It is actually a work problem, not a homework problem πŸ™‚

    It has few of the characteristics of a homework problem. Folks who are too idle to do their homework and post here hoping for a free ride are also, usually, too idle to give a full description of the problem or provide DDL and DML.

    You did both πŸ˜‰

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