man, i hate unions. look at this BS:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/attractive_girls_union_refuses_to

tsk tsk.

It's the Onion.

Man, I thought this was going to be a thread with actual content.

The Onion has the only content you'll ever need.

last part = best

also :http://www.theonion.com/content/video/youtube_contest_challenges_users

good job. i'm glad you clicked the link before you decided to post.

Not as glad as I am that you took the time to respond to my post. Cheers!

My Mom is Union President for Local 1092. I write most of her statements, so I'm basically the union president, myself. This is in spite of my weariness of unions in general.

Wow, Avenger is a jackass.

Also, Kirby, shut the **** up. We're tired of hearing how great you think you are.

I was amused by the part in Madagascar 2 where the monkeys form a union and are trying to get the penguins to give them the right to have maternity leave.

What the hell is your problem? Seriously? Are you twelve?

I don't like where this thread is going.

Unions have an important purpose... if it wasn't for the APWU, my job would be in Mexico.

Mine wouldn't. But go APWU! Also go NRLCA and MHA and NLCA.

And in the cup an union shall he throw,
Richer than that which four successive kings
In Denmark's crown have worn.

**** unions. Was a part of one for years and it was the most pointless, bureaucratic conglomerate of *******s I've ever seen. Did nothing for me except take triple digits worth my my money each month and give me a paycut.

Also, it would be nice to have domestic automobile manufacturers that were worth a damn. Congratulations unions, you very well may have negotiated yourselves right out of a job.

Apparently my union provides lawyers if necessary, but we're without a contract and, as such, aren't getting any cost of living increases..

In SQL the UNION clause combines the results of two SQL queries into a single table of all matching rows. The two queries must have the same number of columns and compatible data types to unite. Any duplicate records are automatically removed unless UNION ALL is used.

UNION can be useful in data warehouse applications where tables aren't perfectly normalized. A simple example would be a database having tables sales2005 and sales2006 that have identical structures but are separated because of performance considerations. A UNION query could combine results from both tables.

Note that UNION does not guarantee the order of rows. Rows from the second operand may appear before, after, or mixed with rows from the first operand. In situations where a specific order is desired, ORDER BY must be used.

Note that UNION ALL may be much faster than plain UNION.

Writing SQL by hand is for fools, you should use O/R mapping tools.

Why in the hell are you guys talking about real unions? You clearly did not even read the OP. You're all an embarrassment.

heh, funny brad.

I think it's a meme now.

I assume you're talking about the Attractive Girls Union here.

No O/R mapping tool can correctly write queries to negate index usage or handle the fine differences between using EXISTS versus IN.

Any decent ORM will let you drop to manual SQL for complex queries. You should always have a data layer.

I definitely read the topic as "Unicorns"

I was disappointed.

I hate this time of year.

Steven comes out of nowhere, peppers us with insults, then vanishes again for another 10 months.

You're just pissy cause he's made it with your mom.