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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Naked Conversations

Sorry, I couldn't help not including 'Book Review' on the subject line, hopefully you're not too disappointed!
I just finished reading...

2008-09-07

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Vacations

If all has gone well I've been on vacation this week, enjoying the world class quartz sand at Siesta Key...

2008-09-04

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Labor Day

It's Labor Day here in the US today, a holiday that is tribute to those of us that work, the journey to...

2008-08-31

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Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up

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I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...

Who Are You Doing It For?

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But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...

Presenting Twice in May 2026

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I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...

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How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location

By schleep

The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...

what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater

By rajemessage 14195

can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...

Radius Latitude Longitude

By HeftSteady

I have a table with latitude longitude in the format.  45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...

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Question of the Day

A Fun Computer Quote

Which movie featured this quote?

"All programs have a desire to be useful."
Happy April Fools!

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