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  • July 31, 2017 at 7:13 am

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    _watching - Sunday, July 30, 2017 10:39 PM

    For anyone else who stumbles across this thread looking for answers, this blog post details the code to perform similar functionality.

    Why would you want to use the code posted on that blog? It is using a while loop which is horribly inefficient. The code I posted is set based and doesn't need any looping.

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