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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Catching Up On SQLOrlando

Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that long before the next one. My last post was about SQLSaturday Orlando 2023. Since then,...

2026-01-16 (first published: )

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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2022

First, the numbers. We registered 240 people, had about 110 on site. That’s definitely better than last year and still quite a bit under what it was pre-Covid. I’ll...

2022-11-04 (first published: )

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SQLSaturday Orlando on October 8, 2022

This year we’re back at our usual location on the campus of Seminole State College for SQLSaturday #1030. You may remember that last year we couldn’t use the college...

2022-08-01 (first published: )

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Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit

I attended the three main days this year and wrote notes as I went. As I sat down to type them up I started by going back to look...

2021-11-19 (first published: )

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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021

We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so...

2021-11-17 (first published: )

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Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)

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I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...

Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194

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We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...

Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art

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I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...

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Question of the Day

Adding and Dropping Columns I

I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList]
(
[CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1),
[CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use?

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