Alexander Chigrik

I would like to offer consultation on MS-SQL by E-Mail

I am from Rostov-on-Don in Russia.I work for a firm Bis Ltd (Banking Information Systems) as a Microsoft SQL Server DBA and developer. I have more than 4 years solid experience
with version 6.5 and more than 2 years experience (since december 1998) with version 7.0.


Current Certifications:

  • Brainbench:Master MS SQL Server 6.5 Administration

  • Master MS SQL Server 6.5 Programming
  • Master MS SQL Server 7 Administration
  • Master MS SQL Server 7 Programming

All exams on Brainbench

I am in the list of 15 top experts on MS SQL under the version of experts-exchange:http://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qList.jsp?ta=mssql


Blogs

Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server

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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

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I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...

Keeping MS Docs Up to Date

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One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...

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Forums

Change Tracking – Troubleshooting

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I have change tracking configured in several databases, in QA and production environments, and...

is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?

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is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...

Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column

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Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...

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Question of the Day

What is the PRODUCT

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?

CREATE TABLE Numbers
( n INT)
GO
INSERT dbo.Numbers
(
n
)
VALUES
(1), (2), (3)
GO
SELECT PRODUCT(n)
FROM dbo.Numbers

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