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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Code You Would Hate To Live Without (T-SQL Tuesday #104 Invitation)

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

The recent news about Microsoft acquiring GitHub has me thinking about how amazing it is for us to be part...

2018-07-03

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Code You Would Hate To Live Without (T-SQL Tuesday #104 Invitation)

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

The recent news about Microsoft acquiring GitHub has me thinking about how amazing it is for us to be part of today's online code community.
Before modern online programming communities,...

2018-07-03

6 reads

Code You Would Hate To Live Without (T-SQL Tuesday #104 Invitation)

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

The recent news about Microsoft acquiring GitHub has me thinking about how amazing it is for us to be part of today's online code community.
Before modern online programming communities,...

2018-07-03

1 reads

Filtering Tables, Procedures, And Other Objects In SSMS

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

Watch this week's video on YouTube
While the text of this post contains good information on SSMS object filters, I highly recommend watching this week's video on YouTube - I...

2018-06-26

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Filtering Tables, Procedures, And Other Objects In SSMS

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

Watch this week's video on YouTube
While the text of this post contains good information on SSMS object filters, I highly recommend watching this week's video on YouTube - I...

2018-06-26

5 reads

Prioritizing Index Performance Pains – What I Learned From Brent Ozar’s Master Index Tuning Class

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

I love continuing my education in SQL Server. Recently I was fortunate enough to take Brent Ozar’s 3-day live online...

2018-06-21 (first published: 2018-06-12)

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Join Elimination: When SQL Server Removes Unnecessary Tables

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

In this post and video at SQLPerformance.com, I discuss what join elimination is and how it works in SQL Server. ...

2018-06-19

630 reads

Join Elimination: When SQL Server Removes Unnecessary Tables

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

In this post and video at SQLPerformance.com, I discuss what join elimination is and how it works in SQL Server. Join elimination is one of the many techniques that...

2018-06-19

15 reads

Join Elimination: When SQL Server Removes Unnecessary Tables

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

In this post and video at SQLPerformance.com, I discuss what join elimination is and how it works in SQL Server. Join elimination is one of the many techniques that...

2018-06-19

2 reads

4 Ways To Define Lookup Values In A Query

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

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Occasionally you may need to create a lookup table of values for a single query. ...

2018-06-13 (first published: 2018-06-05)

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Bert Wagner

Code You Would Hate To Live Without (T-SQL Tuesday #104 Invitation)

Code You Would Hate To Live Without (T-SQL Tuesday #104 Invitation)

Code You Would Hate To Live Without (T-SQL Tuesday #104 Invitation)

Filtering Tables, Procedures, And Other Objects In SSMS

Filtering Tables, Procedures, And Other Objects In SSMS

Prioritizing Index Performance Pains – What I Learned From Brent Ozar’s Master Index Tuning Class

Join Elimination: When SQL Server Removes Unnecessary Tables

Join Elimination: When SQL Server Removes Unnecessary Tables

Join Elimination: When SQL Server Removes Unnecessary Tables

4 Ways To Define Lookup Values In A Query

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How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025

The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations

T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made

Forums

XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services

OPENQUERY Flexibility

A Full Shutdown

Question of the Day

OPENQUERY Flexibility