With assumed tranquility, he then replied `I have no wish to deny that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, nor that I rejoice in my success.

He was separated from him because of political opinions.

Even when distance, jobs, family tended to pull them apart, these friends would say that once they re-established contact, they didn't miss a beat.

He said his daughter was worried that they might have separated a monogamous couple.

Aside from the massaging of data, the main reason you might still want to use a staging table in V8 is to break up the bulk insert into smaller pieces that can be run in parallel.