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.

Running Out of Foreign Keys-Question of the Day

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Running Out of Foreign Keys is live today. Nothing too interesting about this one, a straight forward question where you...

2014-05-20

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Running Out Of Foreign Keys

by Andy Warren

SQLServerCentral

Foreign Keys (FK)

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2014-05-20

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Password Cracking–Part 2

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Two days felt like a long time, so we found a cloud server with 16 cores we could use. We...

2014-05-19

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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 8

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

One of things I wish PASS provided was at least one template for an event flyer, something that is basically...

2014-05-18

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BASIC

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

It might or might not surprise you that I learned to code in Basic. I suppose my first real attempt...

2014-05-16

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Statistics Parser

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

A quick plug today for Statistics Parser by Richie Rump, a free web site that takes the output from “set...

2014-05-16

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Password Cracking–Part 1

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I’ve run into the not uncommon situation where there is a SQL login and no one seems to have the...

2014-05-15

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Peace Officers Memorial Day and Half Staff

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Today is Peace Officers Memorial Day and that’s why the flag is at half staff (Had to search, I didn’t...

2014-05-15

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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 7

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Just spent some time re-reading my notes far and my ideas from before – glad I wrote them down, lots and...

2014-05-14

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Drop Me? No, I Don’t Think So–Question of the Day

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Drop Me? No, I Don’t Think So is my latest question of the day and has to do with dropping...

2014-05-14

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Question of the Day

UNISTR Basics

What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)

SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';

A:

B:

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