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From Henry Ortega
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I have the following:<br /><br />name      effective         tstamp                                   rate<br
/>John      01-01-2006     2005-12-07 13:39:07.614945    115.00<br />John       01-16-2006     2006-01-07
13:39:07.614945    125.00<br /> John       01-16-2006     2006-01-09 15:13:04.416935    1885.00<br /><br />I want the
outputto be:<br />name      effective         end_date        rate<br /> John       01-01-2006     01-15-2006   
115.00<br/> John       01-16-2006                         1885.00<br /><br />What is the best way to do this? This is
ona huge table and what I<br />have right now is quite slow. Any ideas?<br /><br /><br /> 

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