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.

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Merry Xmas 2009

Hope you’re enjoying a break from the routine and spending quality time with family. Xmas for me is a time...

2009-12-24

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One Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Happened to channel surf across this on TV, found the list - http://blog.vh1.com/2009-04-01/100-greatest-one-hit-wonders-of-the-80s-read-the-list-2/. Many of the links seem to point to...

2009-12-24

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Wireless Video

Have not tried this yet, but had it bookmarked to share, the TruLink Wireless USB to VGA will send video...

2009-12-23

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Keyboard Shortcuts

I’m perusing things I’ve in the ‘blog about someday’ category of my list and found this one – a very nice...

2009-12-22

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Blogs

Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI

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it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...

A New Word: on tenderhooks

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on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...

Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses

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I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...

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Forums

Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page

By JSB_89

I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...

how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable

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hi, in an ssis  for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...

Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)

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SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...

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Question of the Day

String Similarity I

On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL')

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