Andy Warren

I'm Andy Warren, currently a SQL Server trainer with End to End Training. Over the past few years I've been a developer, DBA, and IT Director. I was one of the original founders of SQLServerCentral.com and helped grow that community from zero to about 300k members before deciding to move on to other ventures.

Buy a $10 Raffle Ticket to Help Katie

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Not a happy story, but if you've got a child I suspect it will be easy to decide to buy...

2007-07-12

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The Perils of NewID for Randomizing Results

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

NewID() is commonly used in the order by to return the result set in random fashion. No idea whether its...

2007-07-09

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Wiki For Books Online

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...

2007-07-09

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Cursors to Increase Performance?

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I recently had the chance to look over a friends shoulder at a query that needed some tuning work. In...

2007-07-06

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70-444 Exam Prep Book

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I just got my author copies of the Sybex book for exam 70-444 and have to say the book looks...

2007-07-05

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Debugging Stored Procedures in VS 2005

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

My friend and former co-worker Chris Rock just posted at article over at SQLTeam.com that has a pretty good walk...

2007-06-27

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Celko Cites Steve Jones

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I'm at the bookstore today alternating some work with some professional development time and was reading some of Celko's SQL...

2007-06-20

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GO More than Once?

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

SSC had a fairly routine article up recently about The GO Command the Semi Colon Terminator which I read, and...

2007-06-18

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Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...

2007-06-12

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Tampa Code Camp 2007

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...

2007-06-12

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Blogs

Creating an Empty Repo in GitHub–#SQLNewBlogger

I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure...

Product Review: DataVeil

By Brian Kelley

If you’re looking at data masking tools, I recently was able to review the...

The Last Price Bump for the Data Community Summit

This week the cost of the PASS Data Community Summit jumps up to full...

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Forums

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We have a 2017 server in one location which is used as an SSIS...

Error in SQL Server Management Studio launcher

Guys, good night! I have a situation in my SQL Server Management Studio where...

Just upgraded SSRS from 2016 to 2022

I just upgraded SSRS from 2016 to 2022. This is my first time doing...

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