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  • You are welcome for the links. I keep them handy. 😉

    I don't envy you in trying to clean this one up. It is a long and painful road for sure. I have had the "pleasure" of cleaning up many of these types of queries in the past and it generally requires a lot of time and effort to unravel everything and get it right. Even harder when the logic from the original is suspect.

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