Andy Warren

I started my SQL journey here at SQLServerCentral as one of the founders, helping to build a place to share and learn that continues to thrive under the editorial guidance of my friend Steve Jones. I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years ranging from our local SQL group (oPASS, SQLOrlando) to serving on the Board of Directors of PASS to designing and building the framework of SQLSaturday (which has gone on to produce more than 1000 locally managed events since we started in 2007). These days I manage a DBA team, but over the years I've been a trainer, consultant, contractor, and DBA. I'm rarely present on social media, the best way to contact me is here, LinkedIn, or via email.

Blogs

When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages

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Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be.  Two...

Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4

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In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...

Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop

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I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...

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Forums

CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format

By tylerschuler75

I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...

what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?

By stan

hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...

Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls

By krypto69

Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...

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Question of the Day

Putting the Player with the Number

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?

DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix',
@num VARCHAR = '10'

SELECT @player || @num

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