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Re:"I've isolated the bug to a database query" by og1 on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:22PM (#3216970)
Agree with this as well. Forgot exactly what one was and googled it to make sure. The example that is used here would indicate orphaned records.

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join_right.asp

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Re:"I've isolated the bug to a database query" by ceejayoz on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @05:58PM (#3217930)
There are valid use cases for orphaned records. A quote database might want to allow registered and anonymous submission, for example.
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Re:"I've isolated the bug to a database query" by derefr on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:26PM (#3218729)
Or, ala Reddit, comments from deleted users.
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