One influence on the Ferengi was what Herb Wright described as Gene Roddenberry's "sex fetish." In early first season discussions between them about developing the Ferengi, Roddenberry let Wright know it was his intention to make the species well-endowed. "He wanted to put a gigantic codpiece on the Ferengi," Wright stated. "He spent 25 minutes explaining to me all the sexual positions the Ferengi could go through. I finally said, 'Gene, this is a family show, on at 7:00 on Saturdays. He finally said, 'Okay, you're right.'" (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 2/3, pp. 60-61) With Roddenberry's approval, the development of the new species got underway. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 36)
Clearly if you turn the image upside-down, it is a Whale-Gnome-Dustbuster-Pharaoh in the architectural style of the Goa'uld/Ancient Ancients with a blowhole-mouth surprise.
p.*
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WHERE
p.Price < 50
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p.Category_Id
Meanwhile the ORM is probably generating something stupid and unnecessarily slow like this:
SELECT
p.*, c.*
FROM
Products p
JOIN
Category c
USING (Category_Id)
WHERE
p.Price < 50
GROUP BY
c.Category_Id
Now stop using goddamn capital letters in your table and field names. And get off my lawn!
I just rebooted my 10-year-old Optiplex 990 (with a Samsung 860 EVO SSD). Windows 10 22H2 booted to the sign on screen in about 6 seconds. I opened Task Manager immediately, and the CPU calmed down after about another 10 seconds.
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This is where I'd put my !SonicShowerThoughts@Startrek.website... If I had one!