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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Learning New Skills

This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #108 prompt by Malathi Mahadevan.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way...

2018-11-15 (first published: )

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Blog Post

Learning New Skills

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #108 prompt by Malathi Mahadevan.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...

2018-11-06

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Blog Post

Learning New Skills

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #108 prompt by Malathi Mahadevan.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...

2018-11-06

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OPENQUERY Flexibility

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OPENQUERY Flexibility

Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?

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