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Sure, Frank, because everybody knows you don't ever have to optimize queries in Oracle or MSSQL, because they do that for you. Somebody should tell Microsoft that the SQL profiler is useless, because they've sure wasted a lot of time and resources making sure people can needlessly optimize queries.
By your logic, if I have to optimize my C++ code to trick the compiler into making my program run faster, then I should just use C# because it's...more expensive, or something...nevermind, I guess I don't follow your logic.
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