Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner is a Business Intelligence Developer at Progressive Insurance. He enjoys solving challenging data transformations with T-SQL and optimizing for query performance. In addition to BI development, Bert loves building ASP.NET MVC web apps and building Internet of Things projects.

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COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs

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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT) and DISTINCT interchangeably to get an idea of the...

2019-02-19

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Parsing HTML in SQL Server

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Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...

2019-02-12

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Parsing HTML in SQL Server

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Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...

2019-02-12

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Why make?

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...

2019-02-12

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Why make?

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...

2019-02-12

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Can someone please explain what happens?

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I have mentioned this several times over several years.  Can someone please help me...

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0

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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data: 

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code: 
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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