External tables provide a normal table interface to data files that reside in the underlying operating system.

外部表对驻留在底层操作系统中的数据文件提供一个普通的表界面。

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Converting an EVA table to a normal table is time consuming, especially before SQL Server 2005 introduced the PIVOT keyword.

转化一个“实体-属性-值”表到一个普通表需要花费大量的时间，尤其在SQL Server 2005引入PIVOT关键词之前。

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All the "normal vectors" are on the table -- trains, etc.

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"While we would hope that a resolution would come as quickly as possible through the normal process, we would not take that option off the table, " said Payne, a 58-year-old Georgia native.

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In fact I was struck by just how normal the book is, overall. (Although the Table of Contents might blow your mind.) But where the London office-based endeavor succeeds most notably is at being quintessentially Google.

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