Recursively Querying Row Groups

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Recursively Querying Related Rows Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you are trying to solve....

2020-09-02 (first published: 2020-08-25)

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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values...

2020-08-10 (first published: 2020-07-29)

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Moving 1/3 of a heap

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Watch this week’s video on YouTube. A Giant Heap Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don’t ask me why this...

2020-08-03 (first published: 2020-07-22)

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COMING SOON – New Content

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven’t been any videos in a while. If you are...

2020-07-16

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3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Entity Framework

• by Bert Wagner

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Entity Framework

Coming from a SQL developer background these few inner workings of Entity Framework caught me by surprise.

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2020-06-05 (first published: 2016-05-17)

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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Watch this week’s video on YouTube. This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on...

2020-01-14 (first published: 2020-01-07)

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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements? As you might have guessed, the first conversion truncates the value,...

2019-12-17

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When a SQL UPDATE Statement DELETES Rows

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. At first I wasn’t going to write this post. I thought it would be too simple. Then I watched two experienced SQL developers...

2019-12-09 (first published: 2019-11-26)

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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a...

2019-12-03

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First Time Speaking at PASS Summit

• by Bert Wagner

• Bert Wagner

This week, I filmed my experience as a first time speaker at PASS Summit in Seattle. No blog post, just a video to relive the experience.

2019-11-12

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