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Oh yeah, I love people who stick SQL lookups in a For Loop. Even better, the coder who puts conditional if (but no then/else) clauses around a dozen raw text execution commands that fire in sequence. So you're making six distinct lookups per iteration rather than answering your question in a single query and referencing the results from memory.
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